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Lydia Davis, like an inspirational teacher, tempts her readers into more reading

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

A good indicator of just how interesting and alluring Lydia Davis’s Essays proved might be my recent credit card statement. It was hard to read very far without being introduced to an unfamiliar author, and the terms of the introduction were frequently so seductive that I found myself breaking off to order several secondhand books.

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