Lydia Davis

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Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Lydia Davis writes elegant prose pieces in which basic confusions are described with authority and clarity. In one piece, she analyzes an elementary school class’s get well notes to an infirm classmate. Relatively clear sailing. But imagine what happens when she describes Kafka’s attempt to cook dinner for his girlfriend--an exemplary presentation of grace under pressure.

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Michael Silverblatt

Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized.

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