Essays : reading and writing
(Book)

"Lydia Davis is a writer of originality and wit whose influence is far-reaching. Jonathan Franzen has called her 'a magician of self-consciousness,' while Ali Smith hails her as a 'daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic writer.' Grace Paley characterized her as 'the kind of writer about whom you say: Oh, at last!' while for the Los Angeles Times Book Review she is 'one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction.' With Essays one, Davis has, for the first time, gathered under one cover essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past four decades..." --Jacket.