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RPI: Lydia Davis Reading and McKinney Writing Contest Award Ceremony
Lydia Davis, short story author and translator
Reading and McKinney Writing Contest Award
Ceremony — 8:00 p.m., Biotech Auditorium, Center for Biotechnology and
Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer (RPI), Troy
Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, will read from her newest story collection, Can’t and Won’t
(2014). Masterpieces in miniature, the stories feature complaint
letters, reflections on dreams, and small dilemmas. Davis has been
called “one of the quiet giants of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), and “one of the best writers in America” (Oprah’s O Magazine). Her previous collections include The Collected Stories (2009), Varieties of Disturbance (2007), Samuel Johnson is Indignant (2001), Almost No Memory (1997) and Break it Down (1986).
Sponsored in conjunction with RPI’s Vollmer W. Fries Lecture and the 73rd McKinney Writing Contest and Reading
For directions see: http://www.rpi.edu/tour/index.html
This book cannot be returned.
This book cannot be returned.