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Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is a short story writer and essayist, described by Eileen Myles as a “prose writer in the poetry world,” and whose work is full of wit, restraint, and beauty. She is also a celebrated translator of French classics, such as Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
  • An image of a tabby cat sleeping on a wood floor in the sun.
    Lydia Davis

    What Is Freedom: Lydia Davis

    I am thinking of my cat, who is free to wander the house and make her own choices of when to eat, where and when to lie down and go to sleep. Her freedom exists within constraints imposed by me—for…