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

Event date: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 8:00pm
Event address: 
110 8th St.
Biotech Auditorium at Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
12180 Troy
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Two American Scenes (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) By Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger Cover Image
$10.95
ISBN: 9780811220415
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Published: New Directions - March 26th, 2013

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780312655396
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Published: Picador - October 26th, 2010

Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by) Cover Image
By Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143106494
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 4th, 2011

Break It Down: Stories (FSG Classics) By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374531447
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Published: Picador - September 16th, 2008

Varieties of Disturbance: Stories By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374281731
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Published: Picador - May 15th, 2007

The End of the Story: A Novel By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780312423711
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Published: Picador - July 1st, 2004

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780312420567
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Published: Picador - September 1st, 2002

Almost No Memory: Stories By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780312420550
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(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Picador - September 8th, 2001

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by), Christopher Prendergast (Editor) Cover Image
By Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by), Christopher Prendergast (Editor)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780142437964
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Published: Penguin Classics - November 30th, 2004

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