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Lydia Davis’s Can’t and Won’t (Book acquired, 3.6.2015)
Almost finished with this bad boy, or as “finished” as one can be with Davis’s stuff, which I tend to linger on, return to. Full review forthcoming. Tagged: Books, Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis
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Read “The Dreadful Mucamas” by Lydia Davis
“The Dreadful Mucamas” by Lydia Davis They are very rigid, stubborn women from Bolivia. They resist and sabotage whenever possible. They came with the apartment. They were bargains because of Adela’s...
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Lydia Davis on Thomas Pynchon
A rather appealing specimen of early Pynchon is the last story in his collection Slow Learner. The story, “The Secret Integration”—first published in the Saturday Evening Post more than forty years ago...
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This is not a review of Lydia Davis’s Can’t and Won’t
This is the part of the not-review where I include a picture I took of the book to accompany the not-review: This is the part of the not-review where I briefly restage Lydia Davis’s publishing history...
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Lydia Davis on using found materials in her stories
INTERVIEWER More and more you seem to use found materials in your stories. DAVIS Back in the early eighties, I realized that you could write a story that was really just a narration of something that...
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The reader is dreaming (Robert Walser/Karl Walser/Lydia Davis)
A young lady, a girl of perhaps twenty, is sitting in a chair and reading a book. Or she has just been diligently reading, and now she is reflecting on what she has read. This often happens, that...
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Lydia Davis’s “In a House Beseiged,” visually adapted by Roman Muradov
Enjoy the rest of Roman Muradov’s visual adaptation of Lydia Davis’s microfiction at The Paris Review. Tagged: Art, Comics, Lydia Davis, Microfiction, Roman Muradov
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Blog about Lydia Davis’s short story “Happiest Moment”
I’m not sure exactly how many nested layers there are to Lydia Davis’s short story “Happiest Moment.” Sometimes I count as many as nine frames to the tale, sometimes only four or five. Sometimes the...
View ArticleRead a new Lydia Davis story, “How He Changed over Time”
“How He Changed over Time” is a new Lydia Davis story in the fall issue of VQR. Here are the first two paragraphs: He used to play the violin, but then, as his fingers thickened and lost some of their...
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“This Condition”— Lydia Davis
“This Condition” by Lydia Davis In this condition: stirred not only by men but by women, fat and thin, naked and clothed; by teenagers and children in latency; by animals such as horses and dogs; by...
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James Grieve’s translation of Proust’s Swann’s Way (Book acquired, 19 March...
This May, NYRB will publish a “new” translation of the first volume of Marcel Proust’s longassed novel In Search of Lost Time. The translation, by James Grieve, is not actually new. It’s actually like...
View Article“A Note on the Word Gubernatorial”— Lydia Davis
“A Note on the Word Gubernatorial” by Lydia Davis Gubernatorial: Even though I have never used it in a story, and probably never will, this word has always fascinated and pleased me because of its odd...
View Article“From Below, as a Neighbor”— Lydia Davis
“From Below, as a Neighbor” by Lydia Davis If I were not me and overheard me from below, as a neighbor, talking to him, I would say to myself how glad I was not to be her, not to be sounding the way...
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Blog about some books acquired, other stuff
My family and I took our Florida asses to the West Coast for a wonderful week earlier this month. We flew into LA, stayed in Santa Monica for a few days and nights, riding bikes up and down the...
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