“In an e-mail, Davis wrote that she once had “a very talented student who decided to give up writing because she couldn’t stand that existential hum. I was sorry for the loss, but I understood. I don’t actually suffer from it all the time.” She added that the hum is increasingly absent in her stories: “Most recently, I have written a piece about the cows across the road, and it is mostly pure observation of the cows, with very little about me.”
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Brendan Kiley’s review of Lydia Davis’s Collected Stories
This review makes me want to buy the book immediately.
