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A Selection Of Essays On Writing And Reading By The Master Short-fiction Writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis Is A Writer Whose Originality, Influence, And Wit Are Beyond Compare. Jonathan Franzen Has Called Her “a Magician Of Self-consciousness,” While Rick Moody Hails Her As The Best Prose Stylist In America. And For Claire Messud, “davis's Signal Gift Is To Make Us Feel Alive.” Best Known For Her Masterful Short Stories And Translations, Davis’s Gifts Extend Equally To Her Nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis Has, For The First Time, Gathered A Selection Of Essays, Commentaries, And Lectures Composed Over The Past Five Decades. In This First Of Two Volumes, Her Subjects Range From Her Earliest Influences To Her Favorite Short Stories, From John Ashbery’s Translation Of Rimbaud To Alan Cote’s Painting, And From The Shepherd’s Psalm To Early Tourist Photographs. On Display Is The Development And Range Of One Of The Sharpest, Most Capacious Minds Writing Today.

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Author

Davis, Lydia, 1947- author

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374148850

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14