We have all these favorite shows coming on every evening. They say it will be exciting and it always is.
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| Lydia Davis |
Two women sit together on the sofa in the hotel lounge, bent over and deep in conversation. I am walking through, on my way to my room.
First woman, loudly and distinctly: “I never had fun before!”
I am surprised and intrigued–what a heart-to-heart they are having! I try to imagine her life up to now. I try to imagine what she has been experiencing recently, and also the revelation this must be to her–the concept of fun. My thoughts take just a few seconds.
Second woman, speaking softly, inaudibly: “[mumble, mumble].”
First woman: “No, no. Fun is a Chinese word. Fun is Mandarin. It means…a kind of rice noodle.“
Lydia Davis is well known for her very short, and very very short, stories. Her latest collection is Can’t and Won’t. She has won many awards for her fiction, including the Man Booker International Prize. Dana Goodyear of The New Yorker has said she is “one of the most original minds in American fiction today.”
The latest collection from the US author known for her playfulness and brevity has a wintry
Chris Power
Saturday 11 November 2023
About halfway through Lydia Davis’s latest collection – that is, in the 74th of 144 stories sardined into just 368 pages – a woman shows her husband the story she’s been working on. He doesn’t like it, telling her “there was no beginning, no end, and no plot”. Let’s hope he doesn’t read the other 143.
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| Lydia Davis |
The award-winning short story writer talks about her boycott of the world’s biggest marketplace, her love of languages and living with Paul Auster in Paris
Alex Clark
Saturday 30 Septiembre 2023
Lydia Davis is a miniaturist with sizable intentions. Her micro-stories, many just a couple of lines, are constrained in length only; their subject matter might be anything that takes her interest, whether a builder up his ladder, a moment of marital disharmony, a tin of ham or the inevitable approach of death.
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| Lydia Davis Paris, 1973 Lydia Davis: ‘I write it the way I want to write it’The author on flash fiction, translation as a route to creativity, and why we need to prioritise the climate crisis over ‘business as usual with writing’ Anthony Cummins 27 November 2021 Index Entry, the shortest of the very short stories for which the American writer Lydia Davis is best known, runs to just four words: “Christian, I’m not a”. When Davis won the Man Booker International prize in 2013, Ali Smith called her a “daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic writer who reminds you… what words such as economy, precision and originality really mean”. |
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| Maggie O'Farrell |
La autora habla de su tartamudez, de mentirle a su peluquero y de su mal reciclaje.
Rosanna Greenstreet
Sábado, 25 de marzo de 2023
BNacida en Irlanda del Norte, Maggie O'Farrell, de 50 años, estudió en la Universidad de Cambridge y luego se convirtió en periodista. Su primera novela, After You'd Gone , ganó el premio Betty Trask en 2001. Entre sus libros posteriores se incluyen The Hand That First Held Mine , ganadora del premio Costa Book Award en 2010, y las memorias I Am, I Am, I Am . Su última novela es The Marriage Portrait . La adaptación teatral de Hamnet , ganadora del premio Women's Prize de ficción en 2020, se presenta en el RSC Swan Theatre de Stratford del 1 de abril al 17 de junio y en el Garrick Theatre de Londres del 30 de septiembre al 6 de enero de 2024. Está casada, tiene tres hijos y reside en Edimburgo.
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| Maggie O’Farrell |
How to write a book in 30 days
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| Maggie O’Farrell |
An armed ambush, a traumatic labour, near drownings... The novelist tells Decca Aitkenhead about her brushes with death
Saturday 12 August 2017
In an average year, Maggie O’Farrell comes close to death once or twice. Seized with terror, she dials 999 and is rushed to hospital in a white-knuckle dash that navigates the border of life and death. Breathing becomes impossible, the skin bubbles and blisters; as consciousness fades, cardiac arrest can be just minutes away. The death O’Farrell must come this close to, over and again, is not her own but her daughter’s.
