Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier...

With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail. von Davis, Lydia

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few...

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair-such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair...

A ten-time National Magazine Award finalist, The Believer features journalism, essays, intimate interviews, visionary comics, poetry, consistently hilarious columns, reviews of mundane objects, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected...

Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as...

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of...

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...

"Can't and Won't" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten der Autorin Lydia Davis. Das Buch enthält über vierzig Geschichten, die sich durch ihre Kürze, ihren Witz und ihre Originalität auszeichnen. Die Themen variieren stark und reichen...

"Samuel Johnson Is Indignant" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten der amerikanischen Autorin Lydia Davis, die für ihren prägnanten und unkonventionellen Stil bekannt ist. Die Geschichten in diesem Buch variieren stark in Länge und...

Ein neuer Band von der Virtuosin der knappen Form - »Davis ist eine Magierin … Nur wenige Autor*innen können den Worten auf einer Seite so viel Bedeutung verleihen.« (Jonathan Franzen) Die vielfach preisgekrönte amerikanische Autorin...

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier...