Varieties of Disturbance The Inky Awards Shortlist for Silver Inky (2011) for beginners and beyond

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Varieties of Disturbance The Inky Awards Shortlist for Silver Inky (2011) for beginners and beyondLydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we