Books by Lydia Davis
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review 1: As she ages, Lydia Davis writes more and more like Lydia Davis, and though that makes "Can't and Won't" just a little bit less unpredictable than her previous collections, I doubt any of her fans (I definitely count myself as one, now) will mind. The short pieces are even shorte...
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review 1: I'm going to find it hard to review this book, because everything in it was so diverse and different. I've never read anything quite like Davis's writing- her ability to make me laugh in a two sentence story, break my heart with misplaced punctuation and make me question the whol...
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review 1: I am a big fan of Lydia Davis: she is precise, sharply observant and often very wryly funny, able to accomplish a lot in very few words in ER stories and poems. I loved Collected Stories and Varieties of Disturbance, both of which were revelatory for me. So I'm not sure why I did...
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review 1: I like the conceit of disrupting the structure of the short story - Davis is heavy on details and description (to sometimes a pathological degree), low on action and plot. Some of the most interesting pieces contain just three lines or two paragraphs, which because of the brevity...
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review 1: Lydia Davis is a short story writer. She was awarded the Man Booker International prize in 2013. She from her writing seems to be a middle aged woman recently divorced with identity issues. Her writing is easy going but story after story on similar themes of loneliness are tediou...
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review 1: Maybe she's a genius...maybe she has Asperger's Syndrome?I've owned this book for three years,and I have now read all of it. Davis, meantime, has won the International Man Booker, increasing the pressure I already felt to laugh heartily at the deep sophisticated wit of these stor...
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review 1: ITS REALLY A MYSTERY - THREE COWS MAKING GREAT LITERATURE?!"The Cows" is a demonstration of "how to use your eyes". The pictures following the text (Davis' own photos of cows) is the only thing not to like in this little booklet, not that they are necessary bad - but they seem to...
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review 1: I love Lydia Davis usually, and I love cows, so in theory I should've loved this book, but I didn't really. It never fully compelled me. There are definitely some cool moments, however. Wry. I did enjoy imagining her interacting with the cows."They amble out from the far side of ...