The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series 9)
With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail. See More
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by Lydia Davis
(52 reviews)
Quick ViewWith her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail. See More
by Lydia Davis
(131 reviews)
Quick ViewA 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(48 reviews)
Quick ViewLydia 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(75 reviews)
Quick ViewThe 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(77 reviews)
Quick ViewA 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(26 reviews)
Quick ViewFrom one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each... See More
by Lydia Davis
(185 reviews)
Quick ViewA 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(445 reviews)
Quick ViewThe 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(79 reviews)
Quick ViewThe thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks -- dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of... See More
(15 reviews)
Quick ViewBob, 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... See More
by Lydia Davis
(27 reviews)
Quick ViewLydia 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... See More
by PEN America
Quick ViewIn Fear Itself, Edward Albee, Edwidge Danticat, and others think about what fear means to them; Yoshihiro Tatsumi depicts hell; and a detainee describes Guantánamo. Plus new fiction from Lydia Davis and Etgar Keret, poems... See More
(2 reviews)
Quick ViewHome & Away features tributes to James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and Marcel Proust alongside writing by Amy Hempel, Julio Cortazar, Amitav Ghosh, Anne Carson, and W. G. Sebald. PEN members reflect on what great books have... See More
(2 reviews)
Quick ViewAn anthology of poignant short stories about change. A broad range of authors such as Alice McDermott, Lydia Davis, Alice Fulton, David Shields, Rikki Ducornet, Meredith Steinbach, Reginald Gibbons, Alexander Theroux... See More
by Lydia Davis
(22 reviews)
Quick ViewEn estos relatos, Lydia Davis reafirma su maestría narrativa. Alternando historias breves -a veces de dos líneas- con otras más extensas, consigue un efecto embriagador. Como en un truco de magia, y por obra de su prosa... See More
by PEN America
(1 review)
Quick ViewIn Transit explores the adapted, uprooted, translated, and relocated, following literature that moves through space and time. In this issue, Lydia Davis discusses short forms with Osama Alomar and Sjón, and Martin Amis goes... See More
by Lydia Davis
(1 review)
Quick ViewThe Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
by Lydia Davis
(1 review)
Quick View« Par ce mélange de lucidité, de brièveté dans l'aphorisme, d'originalité dans la forme, de comédie astucieuse, de désolation métaphysique, de contrainte philosophique et de sagesse humaine, l'?uvre de Lydia Davis... See More
The Summer 2016 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics... See More
(9 reviews)
Quick ViewFor the 300th issue of Recommended Reading, which happens to fall on Valentine's Day, we opened submissions to your 300-word stories of love and heartbreak. Every day this week, we'll publish two of our favorites from the... See More
by Lydia Davis
(3 reviews)
Quick ViewIn our Autumn 2009 anthology, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O'Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman attempting to finish her dissertation in... See More