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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2019
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The German novelist, poet and translator won multiple prizes for her novel River when it was first published in Germany. Now available in English, it's earning wide acclaim for its haunting evocation of landscape and loss.
Released:
Jan 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
A virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is surprising and memorable: Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction." Her 2007 short story collection, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Davis's newest title, Our Strangers, contains 144 short stories in 300 pages. Lydia Davis spoke to Eleanor Wachtel on stage at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. *This interview originally aired June 10, 2007. by Writers and Company