Afternoon Literary Seminar: Varieties of Disturbance

THIS SESSION IS ONLINE

Varieties of Disturbance

Lydia Davis’s fiction is like nothing you—or the seminars—have read before. A short story writer, translator, critic and novelist, Davis is intensely intelligent, writing short fiction that is sometimes less than a page but whose impact lasts far longer than the work takes to read.

Winner of a Booker Prize—as well as a Whiting, a Guggenheim, a Lannan and the Chevalier d’Or—Davis writes haunting fiction that will help you see language in a whole new way. Shortlisted for the National Book Award, Varieties of Disturbance is Kimberly’s favorite of her collections. Like Lorrie Moore (but also NOTHING LIKE Lorrie Moore), Davis tackles domestic life, love, failure to communicate, dogs, cats and myriad other thorny, appealing issues in ways that will make for an amazing reading experience and an excellent seminar.

 With the new online platform for this seminar, the book is not included in the price of the Seminar. Please order a copy from Keplers.com so that you may read prior to the meeting date.