Lydia davis

Merve Emre talks with the writer and translator Lydia Davis about her painstaking attention to language, and how errors of communication can shape human relations.

Lydia Davis in Paris, 1973 This interview began in Oslo, in September 2013, as a public conversation between Lydia Davis and her translator Johanne Fronth-Nygren at the Norwegian-American Literary Festival. The day before, Davis had met Fronth-Nygren for an introductory lesson in Nor­we­gia...

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

A book arrives in the mail. Its cover is white, imageless, with green and black text in typewriter typeface. The

'Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of recent years. To read The Collected Stories is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James…

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin | 34 Of The Most Beautiful Book Covers Of 2015

The author of the misleadingly titled collection Almost No Memory discusses the sensuality of structure and the perfection of shape.

Lydia Davis’s very, very short stories.

The award-winning short story writer talks about her boycott of the world’s biggest marketplace, her love of languages and living with Paul Auster in Paris