Lydia Davis

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis. In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, representations of Jesus, early tourist photographs, and...

A treasure of American letters, Lydia Davis pens fiction that defies classification. By turns funny, poignant, absurd, and everything in between, the short stories found in her collected works are marvels of the form.