Writers: Lydia Davis

An online guide to the life and work of Lydia Davis

Art is not in some far-off place.

Lydia Davis

Literature

Christopher Ricks on Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis on Literary Influence
Lydia Davis on very short stories
Top Ten Novels About Solitude
50 Tough Books for Extreme Readers
Little Star: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

Translation

Lydia Davis on Madame Bovary and Vladimir Nabokov
Lydia Davis on Translating Madame Bovary
Lydia Davis reviews Rimbaud's Illuminations
Marcel Proust: Which Translation?
Maurice Blanchot at Station Hill

Biography

Lydia Davis Wins Booker International Prize 2013
Paul Auster, Winter Journal