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McSweeney’s #4 (Box of Books Acquired 6.14.2012)
The novelist John Warner (The Funny Man), in an act of incredible kindness, sent me a copy of McSweeney’s #4, which he helped to put out years ago. In one of our emails, John offers the following: It...
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“Losing Memory”— Lydia Davis
“Losing Memory” by Lydia Davis: You ask me about Edith Wharton. Well, the name is very familiar. Tagged: Edith Wharton, Literature, Lydia Davis, Microfiction
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“In a House Besieged” — Lydia Davis
In a house besieged lived a man and a woman. From where they cowered in the kitchen the man and woman heard small explosions. “The wind,” said the woman. “Hunters,” said the man. “The rain,” said the...
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Unknown Pleasures (I Riff a Bit on Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way)
1. I was an undergrad in college when I first tried to read Marcel Proust. It was one of those things I did on my own, which is another way of saying that none of his writing was ever assigned to me;...
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“Enlightened”— Lydia Davis
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I Review Object Lessons, Where 20 Contemporary Authors Select and Introduce...
Object Lessons anthologizes 20 stories published in the Paris Review over the past fifty years. “It is not a greatest hits anthology,” advises the brief editor’s note, “Instead, we asked twenty...
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“Examples of Remember”— Lydia Davis
Tagged: Examples of Remember, flash fiction, Lydia Davis, Microfiction, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, Short Fiction
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“Brief Incident in Short a, Long a, and Schwa”— Lydia Davis
“Brief Incident in Short a, Long a, and Schwa” by Lydia Davis Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant. Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and ant. Ant advances along path. Ant halts, baffled....
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Lydia Davis Reads “Jane and the Cane”; Talks to Ben Marcus
“Jane and the Cane” by Lydia Davis; collected in Collected Stories: Tagged: Ben Marcus, Lannan, Lydia Davis, Short Stories, Short Story
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Lydia Davis Reads “Once a Very Stupid Man”
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Lydia Davis: “I don’t want to be bored by someone’s imagination”
I’m not tired of all good books, I’m just tired of novels and stories, even good ones, or ones that are supposed to be good. These days, I prefer books that contain something real. I don’t want to be...
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Lydia Davis/Denis Johnson/Curzio Malaparte (Books Acquired, 4.06.2013)
Purged the books pictured in the lower right-hand corner and picked up a few: Curzio Malaparte’s Kaputt, which has intrigued me for awhile now, Denis Johnson’s Fiskadoro—in the Vintage Contemporaries...
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Lydia Davis Wins the 2013 Man Booker International Prize
Lydia Davis has won the 2013 Man Booker International Prize—and the £60,000 that go with it. Here’s Davis’s short story “Money” from Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (and also in The Collected Stories of...
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Lydia Davis Reads “The Cows”
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New Issue of Asymptote Features David Mitchell, László Krasznahorkai, Fady...
The July issue of Asymptote, a journal devoted to literary translation, is chock-full of goodies, including a long interview with David Mitchell, a shorty from László Krasznahorkai translation, and an...
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