lydia davis on the web

stories
essays
interviews
reviews/critiques
etc.

 

stories

davis reading "the old dictionary" (high mono real audio or low mono real audio) -- at conjunctions

"break it down" -- at this american life (starts around minute 43)

"five stories" (the five stories being "the mice", "the outing", "odd behavior", "fear", and "lost things") -- at conjunctions

"four stories" (the four stories being "the actors", "trying to learn", "therapists", and "what i feel" -- at conjunctions

"the professor" -- at salon

"finances" -- at salt hill

"this condition" -- at salt hill

"boring friends" and "interesting" -- at mcsweeney's (scroll down a bit to get to the stories)

an excerpt from the end of the story -- at bomb

excerpts from "how he is often right", "what i feel", and "what was interesting" -- at bomb

essays

"pairing off the amphibologisms" -- from joyful noise, at bomb

from "the architecture of thought" -- from pen america

interviews

"lydia davis" by francine prose -- at bomb

"not tired of thinking yet" by kate moses -- at salon

"lydia davis" by thad ziolkowski -- at index

reviews/critiques

"reading lydia davis" by aurelie sheehan -- at the center for book culture's context

review of Samuel Johnson is indignant by albert mobilio -- at the new york times book review

etc.

lydia davis week features numerous "testimonials" by writers and fans - at mcsweeney's


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