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January 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Books That Blew My Mind # 3: “Can’t and Won’t” by Lydia Davis

Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis I could have picked another book by Lydia Davis – I could have picked from a few and probably I should highlight Varieties of Disturbancesince that was my introduction to this incredible writer. But Can’t and Won’t – which I reviewed back when I read it in 2014 as […]

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July 24, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lydia Davis: Can’t and Won’t

Can’t and Won’t: Stories Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux In her first collection in over a decade Lydia Davis continues on with her unique approach to the short story. Her stories are postcards, single sentences, prose-poems, lists, letters, translated notes, found dialogues, overheard conversations, remembered dreams – they might be anything but stories. You […]