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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis BY Lydia Davis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover, 752 pages. $30.
Cover of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

What to do with all the empty white space that drifts over the 733 pages and nearly 200 fictions of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis? Make origami, maybe. Like Don DeLillo, who drafted Underworld at the pace of one paragraph per sheet of paper, Lydia Davis is as much sculptor as writer.