In observance of Women’s History Month, acclaimed short story author Lydia Davis will speak at the New Lebanon Library on Tuesday, March 31. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Davis, a MacArthur fellow and winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany. She was a Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University in 2012. The “extremely short short stories” she is known for were described by The New Yorker as “probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom.” Davis’s most recent collection, “Can’t and Won’t: Stories,” features stories in miniature — complaint letters, reflections on dreams, and small dilemmas. Davis is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics.
All are welcome at this event. For more information, please call the Library at 518-794-8844. The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, 1/4 mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.