Essays One (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374148850)

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as the best prose stylist in America. And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive."

Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis's gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades.

In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote's painting, and from the Shepherd's Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.

Author: Lydia Davis
ISBN-10: 0374148856
ISBN-13: 9780374148850
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.50w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2019 pg. 86
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 10