Almost No Memory: Stories

In 'Pastor Elaine's Newsletter,' a harried mother studies a Bible passage; in 'Foucault and Pencil,' a troubled analyst on her way home from a session attempts to distract herself with a difficult French text; in 'Glenn Gould,' a former pianist tries to justify her dependence on a certain television show. 

The stories in Almost No Memory reveal an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relations, as Davis, in a spare but resonant prose all her own, explores the limits of identity, of logic, and of the known and the knowable.

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Lydia Davis is a short story writer, the author of one novel & of two volumes of non-fiction, Essays One (2019) & Essays Two (2021). She is also an award-winning translator from French & other languages. Her honours include a MacArthur Fellowship (2003), the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts & Letters (2013), the Man Booker International Prize (2013) for her fiction & in 2020 the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She has been decorated as both Chevalier & Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters by the French government for her fiction & translation.