Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
I don’t buy this one. I did buy, I think, the collected stories that I read last year. In that one, it was 700 or so pages of these kinds of small stories and like this one, the list was long and most of the stories were a paragraph at most and sometimes a sentence too. For some reason, that one more or less worked for me. I think that was I felt at the time was that it was interesting, and I was willing […]
Here, read these: https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6230/five-stories-lydia-davis Now you’ve read a Lydia Davis story. But also, if you read my headline, you’ve already read a Lydia Davis story before. I am surprised that I liked this book. It is not a book designed for me to like, and maybe that’s because so many books like this, with very very short short stories are simply bad versions of what Lydia Davis does well. Because her background is not entirely in short fiction and because I really do respect her translation […]
