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Don't let creative writing students read this book

A review of Lydia Davis’ ‘Can’t and Won’t’. Susan Hill finds flashes of genius in Davis’ latest collection of short stories but she’s not sure everyone will

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

Can’t and Won’t Lydia Davis

Hamish Hamilton, pp.283, £16.99, ISBN: 9780374118589

One of these is by Lydia Davis, acclaimed American writer. One is not. They are whole pieces, by the way, not extracts.

This morning I went into the park I often pass on my journeys to somewhere else. I can now say that I have been into this park and not always passed it by.

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