Essays One, by Lydia Davis
This is a Work In Progress (WIP).
Recommended books by the author
Chapter “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits”
- “The 3 A.M. Epiphany”, by Brian Kiteley (a book of writing exercises for fiction writers)
- “Works and Days”, by Bernadette Mayer (a diary, with brief entries in prose and poetry from April into June)
- “My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausgård (Norwegian author) (a series of six autobiographical novels)
- “Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style” by Virginia Tufte
- “Autobiography of Red”, by Anne Carson (a narrative poem)
- “Death in the Family”, by James Agee
- “The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian”, by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”, by James Agee
- “A House for Mr. Biswas”, by V. S. Naipaul (notable for its descriptions)