Lydia Davis

• Apr-1988
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“These stories . . . offer a peephole into a distinct fictional world . . . they attest to the author’s gift as an observer and archivist of emotion.” -- The New York TimesThe thirty-four stories in this seminal c...

• Dec-1994
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The End of the Story is an energetic, candid, and funny novel about an enduring obsession and a woman's attempt to control it by the telling of the story of it. With ruthless honesty, artful analysis, and crystalline depictions of human and natural l...

• Nov-2000
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Lydia Davis's collection Almost No Memory is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self c...

• Sep-2002
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“Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose -- part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis.” -- ElleFrom one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystal...

• Jul-2006
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Tin House features over 200 pages of new, high quality literature on what each author is most passionate about -- be it in the form of fiction, poetry, or essay -- regardless of fashion or timeliness. Of the four issues published per year, this,...

• May-2007
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Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New Yor...

• Oct-2009
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of A...

• Jan-2010
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• May-2010
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Third time's a charm! The international authors of "Six Sentences" are back, and this time, no subject matter is taboo, and everything - and everyone - is fair game. The collection features all-new work from some of the finest practitioners of the 6S...

• Apr-2011
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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Villag...

• Oct-2012
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Following her acclaimed translation of Swann’s Way, Lydia Davis offers a partial alphabet of Proust translation problems – and their solutions. She muses on the near-impossibility of summarizing works by Maurice Blanchot, and ends with a ...

• Apr-2014
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A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America” Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can s...

• Aug-2014
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Bob, Son of Battle, is a sheepdog so canny and careful of his flock, so deeply devoted to his master, James Moore, and so admired for his poise and wisdom by the residents of a small village in the rugged mountains of England’s North Country, that ...

• Apr-2015
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• Nov-2020
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• Oct-2023
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• Oct-2023
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