MacArthur fellow and 2013 Man Booker prize winner Lydia Davis will speak at the New Lebanon Library on Tuesday, March 31, at 7 pm. Light refreshments will be served,
[private]Lydia Davis has published six collections of very short stories noted for their brevity and humor, including 
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and Break It Down, a Finalist for the 1986 PEN/Hemingway Award. Davis is also a novelist, essayist and translator. In addition to the MacArthur Fellowship and Man Booker prize, she is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers. She is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany and was a Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University in 2012.
All are welcome at this free 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. [/private]