Lydia Davis

One great short story to read today: Lydia Davis’s “Happiest Moment”

 
By Julia Hass  May 5, 2025
Letters

In Search of a Time Lost: A Selection of Proust’s Letters Translated by Lydia Davis

By Literary Hub  November 6, 2024
Food Writing

The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

By Aditi Machado  October 21, 2024
The Hub

One great short story to read today:
Lydia Davis’s “Break it Down”

By Emily Temple  May 10, 2024
New Books Tuesdays

A whopping twenty-seven new tomes for your October reading pleasure.

By Gabrielle Bellot  October 3, 2023
Daily Fiction

“Claim to Fame #1 – 9”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 3, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

If Lydia Davis Wasn’t a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

By Lydia Davis  October 2, 2023
Reading List

25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

By Emily Temple  September 6, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  April 6, 2023
Workshop

New Ways to Workshop: A Reading List to Inspire Literary Innovation

By Rachel May and Krys Malcolm Belc  February 17, 2023
Paperbacks

19 paperbacks to be grateful for this November.

By Katie Yee  November 1, 2022
Craft

The Space Between Notes: What Writers Can Learn From Musicians

By Daniel Torday  October 20, 2022
Experimental Fiction

Beyond Metafiction: A Reading List of Labyrinthine Realities

By Alyssa Quinn  October 3, 2022
Fragmentary Essays

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: Multigenre Experiments in Form with Paul Lisicky

By Paul Lisicky  September 6, 2022
The Hub

Remembering the short-lived Starbucks lit mag that published Lydia Davis and James Salter.

By Jessie Gaynor  May 18, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
new books tuesday

12 new books hitting shelves this week.

By Katie Yee  November 30, 2021
Reading Lists

Two By Two: A Reading List of Books That Belong Together

By Ian Williams  November 22, 2021
Nonfiction

The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

By Literary Hub  November 1, 2021
Titles

Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

By Chris Drangle  May 24, 2021
Horror

The Best Nightmarish Fiction:
A Reading List

By Angela Buck  February 26, 2021
Best of the Year

What Did You Read This Year
That You Loved?

By Literary Hub  December 18, 2020
Craft

Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

By Emily Temple  August 18, 2020
Correspondence

Lydia Davis on Making the Decision
Not to Fly

By Lydia Davis  July 20, 2020
The Hub

On Lydia Davis’s birthday, read her advice on language, writing from reality, and more.

By Corinne Segal  July 15, 2020
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