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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Lydia Davis
★★★★★· Published 2001· 201 pages· read 2026
Lydia Davis can do more in two sentences than most writers manage in twenty pages. Tiny, strange, razor-sharp stories.
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri's story collection about Indian and Indian American lives, longing and distance. Each one is quietly perfect.
★ 5Vintage Munro
Alice Munro
A slim best-of from the master of the short story. If you've never read Munro, this is a lovely way in.
★ 5The Garrick Year
Margaret Drabble
Aliza and I recently went to see Anne Lamott talk, and she lamented that no one reads Margaret Drabble anymore. I practically leapt out of my chair. “I do!!” I said. (Aliza leaned over and whispered: “overachiever.”) This book, a dark comedy about a marriage on the rocks, pulses with energy and life and feels shockingly contemporary.