Lydia Davis is a consummate translator and one of the foremost contemporary short and short-short story writers; her influence within the short-short story medium seems immeasurable, as nearly every literary magazine pumps out 250-word story after 250-word story, each attempting – but few, if any,

Anxiety, Architectural, Citational, Clever, Experimental, Pioneering, Playful, Witty

One of the preeminent figures of contemporary literature, David Foster Wallace has assembled the variety of his influences – Jorge Luis Borges, John Barth, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon – and saved them from the self-immolation it seemed that academia was increasingly drawing them t

Anxiety, Citational, Complex, Expansive, Layered, Postmodern fiction, Sincere, Slangy, Smart, Subtle, Witty