Lydia Davis

• Apr-1988
• / General Fiction

"These stories . . . offer a peephole into a distinct fictional world . . . they attest to the author's gift as an observer and archivist of emotion." -- The New York Times The thirty-four stories in this seminal col...

• Dec-1994
• / General Fiction

From an award-winning author, a literary novel about a woman's romantic obsession "is not only beautiful, but an extraordinary and very modern achievement" (The New York Observer).Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an o...

• Nov-2000
• / General Fiction

Lydia Davis's collection Almost No Memory is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self c...

• Sep-2002
• / General Fiction

"Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose -- part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis." -- Elle From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystal...

• Jul-2006
• / Literary

Tin House features over 200 pages of new, high quality literature on what each author is most passionate about -- be it in the form of fiction, poetry, or essay -- regardless of fashion or timeliness. Of the four issues published per year, this,...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New Yor...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of A...

• Jan-2010
• / General Fiction

• May-2010
• / General Fiction

Third time's a charm! The international authors of "Six Sentences" are back, and this time, no subject matter is taboo, and everything - and everyone - is fair game. The collection features all-new work from some of the finest practitioners of the 6S...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Villag...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction

Following her acclaimed translation of Swann’s Way, Lydia Davis offers a partial alphabet of Proust translation problems – and their solutions. She muses on the near-impossibility of summarizing works by Maurice Blanchot, and ends with a ...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America” Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can s...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction

Bob, Son of Battle, is a sheepdog so canny and careful of his flock, so deeply devoted to his master, James Moore, and so admired for his poise and wisdom by the residents of a small village in the rugged mountains of England’s North Country, that ...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction

• Nov-2020
• / Literary

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction