Lydia Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow and the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her fiction, focuses her unique intelligence and idiosyncratic ways of understanding on the endlessly complex relations between languages. In Essays Two, following her much buzzed about Essays One, her latest musings explore Proust, the French city of Arles, and translating writers into English (from Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and more). This provocative and delightful volume cements her status as one of our most original and beguiling writers.

Lydia Davis talks to Michael LaPointe (author of The Creep) about Essays Two  and the unique adventures of language-learning, literature and travel as she continues to expose her readers to her fascinatingly complex thoughts on language and the arts in the 21st century.

About this event’s guests:
Lydia Davis
Michael LaPointe

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Lydia Davis: Proust, Arles and Madame Bovary