In Conversation With Lydia Davis

Odds are you will recognize yourself and others in your orbit in many of the perfectly-distilled pieces in Lydia Davis’s outstanding new collection of petite fiction, Our Strangers. These nuanced and succinct stories cunningly explore both the vagaries and the ephemerality of life in Davis’s inimitable style; and what are our individual and collective moments, days, and very lives if not short fictions?