Why You Can't Buy Lydia Davis's New Book on Amazon
Our Strangers is more than a beguiling collection of short fiction: It represents a stand against what might be killing the book industry.
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Our Strangers is more than a beguiling collection of short fiction: It represents a stand against what might be killing the book industry.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the two practices are inextricably linked.
In “Essays Two,” the acclaimed fiction writer and translator of Proust, Flaubert and others does a beautiful job of transmitting the satisfactions of working with language.
The author on flash fiction, translation as a route to creativity, and why we need to prioritise the climate crisis over ‘business as usual with writing’