Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in...

Lydia Davis's prose does not fit into the usual framework at all and may seem bizarre or extravagant to some. Sometimes her stories have no plot, and sometim...

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Alm...

The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks — dexterity, brevity, understatement, and ...

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investiga...

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair-such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator o...

A new collection of short stories from the writer Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America”.Her stories may be literal one-liners: the ent...

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”...

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 th...

McSweeney's is a quarterly American literary almanac founded in 1998 to publish alternative short fiction. At first, McSweeney's published unformatted storie...

"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, ...

Gothic horror and mystery form the basis of the book by the famous English researcher Peter Haining. The other world fascinates with its visions: demonic for...