Essays

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A crystalline collection of literary essays from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't

Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control: wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across her many creative influences, including Thomas Pynchon, Michel Leiris, Maurice Blanchot, Lucia Berlin and Joan Mitchell, she returns again and again to her own writing process, joyfully interrogating the limits of literature and the ways in which we can challenge and reinvent it.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241985458
Published: July 2026

Number of pages: 528
Width: 132 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 33 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd