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EX LIBRIS IRMC – books from my personal library
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is American. She writes short stories and is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages.
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Loving these short short stories by Lydia Davis.

What are you reading this weekend?

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The little cardboard berries burst open, the binding wire twisted, the braid melted; and the shriveled paper petals, hovering along the fireback like black butterflies, at last flew away up the chimney.
—Madame Bovary
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…you'll hear a noise…like her cry…and make that connection in a part of you you have no control over and the pain comes back so hard that you're afraid, afraid of how you're falling back into it again…you're terrified to ask how you're ever going to climb out of it.

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He lived in a house where he could never find the kitchen in the mornings. He learned to subsist on the crackers under his bed #LydiaDavis

"Of course there might have been another explanation for what I heard." You think? #LydiaDavis

"Last night Mildred, my neighbor on the floor below, masturbated with an oboe." #LydiaDavis #ShortStories

#LydiaDavis talking about her experience of translating Proust, differences from Scott Moncrief's version. #duke #FranklinCenter

Hey @sarabandebooks: I got my very own copy of THE COWS in the mail today. I am bouncing in my desk chair with excitement! #lydiadavis