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...“Our Strangers”, by Lydia Davis, is published by Canongate Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...No one does brevity like Lydia Davis....
...Our Strangers by Lydia Davis (Canongate/Bookshop Editions) Lydia Davis makes the word “minimalist” seem excessive: some of the stories in this latest collection are barely tweet-length....
...There are other “push” factors too, says Nathalie Willis-Davis of Lisbon-based consultancy Tendoria....
...As her work attests, Sims-Hilditch, a descendant of Royal Academician HWB Davis (her mother is the well-known interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch ), is a rising star....
...Scanlan’s minimalist dexterity, which was on display throughout the 40 often very short stories in her 2020 collection The Dominant Animal, is reminiscent of Lydia Davis, a master of the succinct form....
...Dogus Adriano CavagniniExecutive Chef, Bulgari Hotel London Sue CrozierHR Solutions Hospitality Juan Santa CruzFounder, The Santa Cruz Co Sir Mick DavisChairman, Vision Blue Resources Ltd Robert Davis...
...Essays , by Lydia Davis, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$30, 528 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Lydia Davis, co-founder of the app, says this payment model has been useful for two reasons: “Even though it’s a minimal charge, it’s created a barrier for entry with people that aren’t going to take this...
...Davis, “it had such conviction . . . and was so well written . . . that it prevailed without competition for 80 years”....
...That same year the Man Booker International Prize was awarded to another short story writer, Lydia Davis....
...Andrew Bowyer, chief operating officer, RSG Consulting; Liam Brown, founder and executive chairman, Elevate; Mark Cohen, chief strategy officer, Elevate; Jane Croft, FT law courts correspondent; Reggie Davis...
...Lydia Davis always makes me laugh. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...Think of George Saunders or Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore and Lydia Davis....
...(A New Yorker piece about Lydia Davis described how, while she had to continually coax and trick herself back to work, he would keep writing steadily all day long.)...
A new short story for the holidays from the award-winning writer
A new short story for the holidays, from the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Internati…
...Previous prize winners include László Krasznahorkai (2015), Lydia Davis (2013), Philip Roth (2011), Alice Munro (2009), Chinua Achebe (2007) and Ismail Kadare (2005)....
...There are flickers of other literary dissidents, too, such as Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Edna O’Brien and Angela Carter; the last two in particular come to mind in the way Bennett lets raucous digressions...
...Davis, both from the US....
...Can’t and Won’t, by Lydia Davis, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26, 304 pages Ezra Pound famously exhorted the artist to “make it new”, a directive on the one hand incontestable...
...… Can’t and Won’t, by Lydia Davis, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 “The dramas and ironies of [Davis’s] short – often very short – stories,” wrote Claire Messud in these pages...
...The move away from realism, which recalls other American writers such as Lydia Davis and Donald Barthelme, occurs most strongly in the final, title story, “The Emerald Light in the Air”....
...says Lydia Shelly, a solicitor with the Muslim Legal Network, an advocacy group....
...This week Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International prize, beating nominees including fellow American Marilynne Robinson, the Chinese writer Yan Lianke and the Russian novelist and dramatist Vladimir...
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