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Lydia Davis's Books
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The RendezvousThe Rendezvous is a beautiful and evocative first novel that blurs all lines between memoir and fiction. In a painfully sentimental journey, Louise, a...Read More
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New Yorker, May 15, 2012
...I am halfway through Lydia Davis’s masterly new translation of "Madame Bovary," a novel I have never read in my mother tongue. The red leather binding of my French copy, now forty years...
Irish Times, May 1, 2012
...international reputations, including Christopher Reid, Ruth Padel, John Banville, Manuel Rivas, Billy Collins, David Mitchell, Amy Bloom and Lydia Davis, it could be argued that C?irt is thus no longer purely "an international festival of literature"....
Bookslut, April 3, 2012
...hard to steal from writers as distinctive as these. Everyone who borrows from Beckett, from Rudy Wurlitzer to Lydia Davis, takes on the unwanted appellation: he or she becomes "Beckettesque." Despite all this, there remains something astonishing and...
New Statesman, March 22, 2012
...Kasia Boddy is the editor of "The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis" (Penguin, £9.99...
Guardian.co.uk, March 17, 2012
...so I'm raw from lack of sleep and very unforgiving. This state certainly undermined my enjoyment of Lydia Davis's "What You Learn About the Baby". Her descriptions of how life changes and the emotions you experience when caring for an infant ("Don't...
Guardian.co.uk, March 15, 2012
...– like a chocolate box of lemon sherberts – many of which are by contemporary writers, such as Lydia Davis, Anita Desai and the magisterial Alice Munro , whose work is full of mothers. But the short story writer most famously associated with...
Clash Music, March 9, 2012
...no company. It is complete. What other authors do you like? Sebald, Haruki Murakami, John Berger, Ishiguru, Kawabata, Lydia Davis, Siri Hustvedt, Alasdair Gray, Robert Walser, Laurence Sterne, Fernando Pessoa. Not a novelist, but I love the writing...
Cherwell Newspaper, February 28, 2012
...Christy Edwall speaks with the new master of the short short story Lydia Davis is the best writer you’ve never heard of. She’s been rising slowly, writing and publishing since the 70s when she released her first story collection, The Thirteenth...
Sturgis Journal, February 25, 2012
...the Lady Eagles built a 22-3 lead. In the second half the Lady Falcons would be outscored 14-8. Lydia Davis led with three, Hannah Knight, Linzee Springer, Miranda McGlothlen and Makayla Parsons all had two. McGlothlen had eight rebounds and Parsons had...
Sturgis Journal, February 22, 2012
...We played hard, I think we’ve improved,” coach George Timm said. “We need to keep working hard.” Lydia Davis and Miranda McGlothlen both scored seven. McGlothlen had a team high 11 rebounds. Makayla Parsons had six points and seven rebounds,...
Kalamazoo Gazette, February 22, 2012
...Noelle Mejeur led Galesburg-Augusta with eight points, followed by Abby Wilson with seven points. Lydia Davis and Miranda McGlothlen scored seven points each for Constantine. High School Playoff Brackets Girls Basketball • Class A State Tournament •...
Virgin Islands Daily News, February 18, 2012
...and keep trying my best," he said. Aaron's coach and St. Patrick's School language teacher Lydia Davis said she was excited and thrilled for her student. "It's good to know when your hard work is paid off," she said. Unlike Aaron, who finished in...
Irish Times, February 18, 2012
...relationship. McGregor is an original, although there are echoes of Ian McEwan and particularly of the American writer Lydia Davis's love of adopting voices. The best thing about this book may be that many of the pieces reflect McGregor's humour, which...
Time Out Chicago, February 17, 2012
...-loathing, and the cluelessness that mixture instills. Though in form, Williams’s writing most resembles the work of Lydia Davis, the former’s is a much wilder beast. There is such velocity to this book in which, like a top-secret message, each story...
