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Little Stories That Delight Like The Best Sleight Of Hand
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Little Stories That Delight Like The Best Sleight Of Hand

Reading a story by Lydia Davis is like watching a magic trick: She shows you a top hat that's obviously empty, and then she pulls out of it something enormous and oddly shaped.

Little Stories That Delight Like The Best Sleight Of Hand

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Lydia Davis' New Collection Has Stories Shorter Than This Headline

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Lydia Davis' New Collection Has Stories Shorter Than This Headline

The award-winning author is known for her brevity, and Can't And Won't doesn't disappoint. Davis tells NPR's Rachel Martin that the works of Russell Edson inspired her to write super-short stories.

Lydia Davis' New Collection Has Stories Shorter Than This Headline

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