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Interview Details
Title & Link
Little Plots of Real Life: A Conversation with Lydia Davis | Fiction Writers Review
Publish Date
May 24, 2009
Interviewees
Lydia Davis
Interviewers
Alison Espach
,
Mary Stewart Atwell
Publisher
Fiction Writers Review
Topics
nonfiction
progression of work
short fiction
transitioning from inventing worlds to inverting the real one
translating works
Upcoming projects
work influences
writing dream stories
writing habits
People Mentioned
Alice Munro
Daniel Grandbois
Gustave Flaubert
J. Robert Lennon
Marcel Proust
Peter Altenberg
Phyllis Koestenbaum
Proust
Works Mentioned
Almost No Memory
Bouvard et Pecuchet
Break It Down
In Search of Lost Time
Madame Bovary
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Swann’s Way
The End of the Story
Varieties of Disturbance
Wild Girls
Places Mentioned
France
Washington University in St. Louis
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