Lydia Davis’s story collections includeSamuel Johnson Is Indignant, a Village Voice favorite, and Almost No Memory, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. The acclaimed translator of the newSwann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, and recipient of a 2003 MacArthur Fellowship, Davis is on leave from SUNY Albany, where she is also a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute. Her latest collection of short stories, Varieties of Disturbance, was published as a paperback original by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2007 to widespread critical acclaim. More about this author >