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    ‘I’m not worried about fame or glory’: Lydia Davis, the author who has refused to sell her book on Amazon

    Sep 30, 2023 5 minutes

    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.

    Her fans are legion – among them Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín and Dave Eggers – and she has won many honours, including the International Booker prize a decade ago and being awarded a MacArthur fellowship, often referred to as a “the genius grant”, in 2003. Her impressive back catalogue – several story collections and a single novel, The End of the Story – extends beyond her fiction to two widely praised books of essays and a whole other life as a translator of Proust, Flaubert and the Dutch writer AL Snijders.

    Her new collection, Our Strangers, consists to be a Burberry!’”

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