Lydia Davis papers, 1940-2022

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Series VIII: Publications, circa 1973-2021

This series includes essays, poetry, reviews, short stories, translations, and other written works published in journals, magazines, and other publications. The publications also contain interviews with Davis, and reviews of her work.

There are related professional and business files in Series II: Professional Files.

The majority of the publications are in English, but the series includes publications with translated interviews and written works.

Arranged alphabetically by publication title. Works included in the publication are listed in the description but foreign language titles were not translated into English.


Subseries VIII.1: Publications with Davis' Writing, circa 1973-2021

This series includes essays, poetry, reviews, short stories, translations, and other writing published in journals, magazines, and other publications. The majority of the publications are in English, but the series includes publications with translations interviews and works.



Box 101 32 Poems Magazine (Volume 4, Number 2), 2006 Fall/Winter

Men; Two Types.


Box 101 action poétique (117), 1989

In French. Trois proses - Mildred et le Hautbois, Dans une Maison Assiégée, and Problème.


Box 101 Am Lit: Neue Literatur Aus Den USA, 1992

In German. Das Hinterhaus.


Box 101 American Letters and Commentary (Two), 1989 Fall

Three Stories - Her Mother's Mother: 1, Her Mother's Mother: 2, and How Difficult, How Difficult


Box 101 American Letters and Commentary (Ten, 10th Anniversary Issue), 1998

Selfish


Box 101 The American Scholar (Volume 73, Number 3), 2004 Summer

Reading Aventuras de Tom Sawyer


Box 101 American Short Fiction (Volume 18, Issue 59), 2015 Spring

Party Conversations (1 & 2)



Box 112 Annandale (Volume 133, Number 1), 1993 December

The Other



Box 101 Antæus (67), 1991 Autumn

The House Behind



Box 92 Folder 8 Artforum (Volume XXXIII, Number 10), 1995 Summer

It is unclear how Davis is featured in this issue.


Box 92 Folder 8 Artforum (Volume XXXIV, Number 5), 1996 January

Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets



Box 112 Avec (Volume 2, Number 1) (2nd Issue), 1989

My Friend; Forbidden Subjects


Box 112 Avec (Volume 3, Number 1) (3rd Issue), 1990

Michel Leiris from Fourbis, translated by Davis



Box 101 The Archive Newsletter, 1987 Spring

Foucault and Pencil



Box 112 Banana Split (Number 12), 1984

In French. En Visite Chez Son Mari.


Box 112 Banana Split (Number 17), 1986

In French. Quelques Bouts D'Histoires.


Box 112 Banana Split (Number 27), 1990

In French. Break It Down.


Box 112 [Bard College?] On Writing Place The L&T Anthology, 1996 August

Five Signs of Disturbance; Wife on in Country; To Reiterate; Our Kindness; The Thirteenth Woman


Box 112 Bastard Review (5/6), [1992?]

Translations from Fourbis: Detritus by Michel Leiris and from The One Who was Standing Apart From Me by Maurice Blanchot.


Box 112 Believer (Issue 133), 2020 December /2021 January

On Translating Bob, Son of Battle: The Unexpected Difficulties of Modernizing a Beloved Nineteenth-Century Chldren's Book



Box 116 Folder 1 The Binnewater Tides (Volume 7, Number 3), 1990 Summer/Fall

What Was Interesting



Box 101 Black Clock (16), 2016 Spring/Summer

Bang



Box 112 Bokvennen litterært magasin (nr 2.2013), 2013

In Norwegian. Skrievebordet. This appears to be a non-fiction article / interview about Davis' desk, with photographs.


Box 112 Bomb (Issue 69), 1999 Fall

Almost over: What's the Word?; Spring Spleen; They Take Turns Using a Word They Like; Working Men; A Man from Her Past; Almost Over: Separate Bedrooms; Thirty; Young and Poor; Special A Double Negative; Suddenly Afraid; First Grade: Handwriting Practice; The Old Dictionary


Box 112 Bomb (Issue 152), 2020 Summer

Forgetting Caen; Crepey (this is a fold-out inside the back cover)



Box 92 Folder 8 Bookforum, 1997 Summer

Davis' review of Klaus Kertess' Joan Mitchell



Box 116 Folder 1 Bookforum, 2005 June/July/August/September

Includes an appreciation of Thomas Pynchon. Includes covering letter.



Box 101 Brick: A Literary Journal (69), 2002 Spring

On Stendhal's alter ego


Box 101 Brick: A Literary Journal (73), 2004 Summer

Marcel Proust: Two approaches to Combray, by Lydia Davis and C. K. Scott Moncrieff


Box 101 Cambridge Literary Review (Volume III, Issue 6), 2012 Easter

Revise: 1 and Revise: 2


Box 101 Chemin de Ronde (Volume 4), 1984

In French. L'analyse.


Box 101 City Lights Review (Number 1), 1987

Wife in One Country; Foucault and Pencil


Box 101 City Lights Review (Number 4), 1990

Translation of Michel Leiris' Mors:Bit



Box 112 The Coffin Factory (Issue 2), 2012

Translations of A. L. Snijders' Grandson; Buzzards; Fun; Bat; Helpless Because of Respect



Box 101 Columbia: A Journal (Issue 42), 2005 Fall

Enlightened



Box 102 The Columbia Review (Volume 100, Issue 2), 2019 Spring

Found Material, Syntax, Brevity, and the Beauty of Awkward Prose: Forms and Influences IV



Box 111 Common Knowledge (Volume 5, Number 1), 1996 Spring

Translation of Bruno Latour's Do Scientific Objects Have a History? Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid



Box 102 Common Knowledge (Volume 25, Issues 1-3), 2019 April

Per Davis' note, this issue reprints three contributions of mine - 2 translations and 1 short review. Translations are for Bruno Latour and A.L. Snijders, and the review is for Regina Ullmann's The Country Road.



Box 118 Conjunctions (11), [1988]

The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists; Television; Killed by Monotomy; Almost No Memory; Confusions. There are some handwritten revisions and notes on revisions in Confusions.



Box 108 Conjunctions (13), 1989

Go Away; Soon After Falling Asleep; How He is Often Right


Box 108 Conjunctions (15), 1990

Lord Royston's Tour


Box 108 Conjunctions (17), 1991

The Actors; Trying to Learn; Therapists; What I Feel



Box 109 Conjunctions (18), 1992

Five Dark Tales: The Cedar Trees; A Natural Disaster; The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall; Love; The Rape of the Tanuk Women


Box 109 Conjunctions (24), 1995

The Mice; The Outing; Odd Behavior; Fear; Lost Things


Box 109 Conjunctions (29), 1997

Issue is Tributes: American Writers on American Writers. Davis' piece is Broaching Difficult Dahlbert.


Box 109 Conjunctions (31), 1998

Translation of Michel Leiris' 1944 Journal


Box 109 Conjunctions (34), 2000

Happy Memories



Box 118 Conjunctions (38), 2002

Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.



Box 109 Conjunctions (59), 2012

Reversible Story



Box 113 Crawl Out Your Window (9 & 10), 1982 May

The Fears of Mrs. Orlando; Mildred and the Oboe; City Employment


Box 113 Crawl Out Your Window (11), 1983 April

The Cottages: 1. On the One Hand, On the Other Hand 2. Lillian; Extracts From a Life: If you think of something, do it - My Guardian Doctor Einstein - I have learned what art really is - The Clarinet Quintet - The Japanese Poet Issa - Well done, young man


Box 113 Crawl Out Your Window 1974-1989 (17), 1989 September

City Employment; The Fears of Mrs. Orlando



Box 115 Folder 1 Curtains, 1975

Translations of Parts 2 and 3 of Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot.



Box 102 Decision (Number 72), 2006

Jane and the Crane. Piece is in English.


Box 102 Decision (Number 87), 2010

In German. Neun weitere Überlegungen.


Box 102 Deux ex Machina (Number 160), 2017 June

In Dutch. Nieuwe dingern in mihn leven ("New Things in My Life")



Box 113 DoubleTake (3:2), 1997 Spring

Glenn Gould


Box 113 The Downtown Review (Volume 2, Number 3), 1980 Fall

On Jacob and Chazal - Reviews of Max Jacob's The Dice Cup and Malcolm de Chazal's Sens-Plastique



Box 92 Folder 10 "Du" Magazine, 2010 Juni

German language publication in Switzerland. In German. Includes interview with Davis by Thomas David, and several short stories: Fragen Der Grammatik; Idee Für Einen Kurzen Dokumentarfilm; Die Sprache Der Telefongesellschaft; Zwanzig Skupturen Innerhalb Einter Stunde; Bloomington; Polenta; Gepäckaufbewahrung; Dinner; Hundehaar; Meinne Fussstapfen; Der Gesang; Die Party; Drin Phil [with the "in" in superscript]; Formen Der Verstörung. There are handwritten annotations indicating that several of the stories were "in Decision", which may be another German magazine.



Box 102 Dyslexia (1), 1981 April

My Husband and I; Neighbors


Box 102 Wood, Sarah. The Enigmatic Message, 2018

This is the artist book that accompanied the installation of the Beyond 2001 exhibition (2018). Includes translation by Davis.


Box 102 Epiphany: A Literary Journal, 2016 Fall/Winter

Letter to the Father



Box 115 Folder 1 Exquisite Corpse (Volume 1, Number 2), 1983 February-March

Mildred and the Oboe



Box 102 Faultline (Volume 24), 2015

Gramsci; Helen's Father and His Teeth; Recurring Turnip Problem; A Friend Borrows a Better Shopping Cart; Interesting Vegetables (Draft 3)


Box 102 Fence (Volume 6, Number 2), 2003-2004 Fall/Winter

Kafka Cooks Dinner


Box 102 Fence (Volume 13, Number 2), 2011 Winter

The Moon; The Churchyard; In the Train Station; At the Bank; At the Bank: 2; A Film That Will Make the Audience Feel…


Box 102 Fence (Volume 15, Number 2), 2012-2013 Winter

The Gold-Digger of Goldfields. This piece was published in an ebook supplement and is not included in the physical volume. It is included in the End of Summer fiction issue, below.


Box 102 Fence (Volume 15, Number 2.5), 2013 End-of-Summer

The Gold-Digger of Goldfields


Box 102 Fiction International (Volume 15, Number 2), 1984

Five Signs of Disturbance



Box 117 Five Points (Volume 15, Number 3), 2013

The Magic of the Train; Her Birthday, plus translations of A.L. Snijder's Ukiyo-e; Baldur; Story; and Flapsour



Box 102 Flash (Volume 6, Number 2), 2013 October

How W.H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House; Wife One in Country; Mir the Hessian; For Sixty Cents


Box 102 Flash (Volume 7, Number 2), 2014 October

Includes translations of A. L. Snijder's Soup Bowl; Eggs. Includes a review of Davis' Can't and Won't, and the sample story "Their Poor Dog".


Box 102 Fourteen Hills (Volume 4, Nubmer 2), 1998 Spring/Summer

New Year's Resolution


Box 102 Freeman, John, ed. Freeman's: Arrival (Grove Press), 2015

On Learning Norwegian


Box 102 F(r)iction (Number 11), 2018 Summer

On the Train to Stavanger



Box 103 The Georgia Review (Volume XXX, Number 2), 1976 Summer

Translation of Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence



Box 113 Gerry Mulligan (Number Zero), 2009 Winter

Left Luggage



Box 103 Glänta (1.15), 2008?

In Swedish. Ett belägrat hus; Gammelmormödrarna; Mödrar; Den trettonde kvinnan; Mina grannar på en främmande plats; Lyckligaste ögonblicket; Säker kärlek



Box 115 Folder 1 Golestaneh Literary Magazine (Volume 2, Number 16), [circa 2014?]

From Iran. In Farsi. Includes translations of A Few Things Wrong with Me and Socks, plus a brief introduction and translation of Davis' interview with Salon. Includes cover letter.



Box 103 Grand Street (Volume 9, Number 1), 1989 Autumn

The Center of the Story


Box 103 Grand Street (Volume 14, Number 4) (56), 1996 Spring

St. Martin



Box 108 Granta (68), 1999 Winter

The Furnace


Box 108 Granta (115), 2011 Spring

The Dreadful Mucamas


Box 108 Granta (140), 2017 Summer

State of Mind: Chère Madame - Translations of letters by Marcel Proust.


Box 108 Granta (147), 2019 Spring

40th Birthday Issue, includes The Dreadful Mucamas. Includes cover letters.


Box 108 Granta (151), 2020 Spring

Learning to Sing


Box 108 Granta en Español (2), 2004 Verano/Otoño

La Visita a Alemania del Señor Burdoff


Box 108 Granta en Español (4), 2006 Primavera

El lago


Box 108 Granta Israel, 2016 Winter

The Dreadful Mucamas (in translation)



Box 115 Folder 1 Guest 3, 2019 April

Bonne Nuit, Blanche Brown; Revise 4



Box 103 Gulf Coast (Volume V, Number 1), 1992 Summer

Letter to Jack; Watchdogs; The Flies; War; Toscana


Box 103 Gulf Coast (Volume 32, Issue 1), 2020 Winter/Spring

Not Yet Ring Lardner; The Joke; The Other She; The Matchmaker


Box 103 Hambone (Number 8), 1989 Fall

Nervous; 20 Sculptures and One Hour; Southerward Bound, Reads Worstword Ho


Box 103 Hambone (Number 14), 1998 Fall

How It is Done; Betrayal; Right and Wrong; Interesting; Company


Box 103 The Happy Reader (Issue 14), 2019 Winter

Nightmare



Box 113 Folder 1 Harper's Magazine, 1986 September

Story


Box 113 Folder 1 Harper's Magazine, 1992 February

The Professor


Box 113 Folder 1 Harper's Magazine, 1993 April

Varities of Disturbance


Box 113 Folder 1 Harper's Magazine, 1997 June

A Second Chance


Box 113 Folder 1 Harper's Magazine, 2000 September

The Old Dictionary


Box 113 Folder 1 Harper's Magazine, 2002 August

Grammar Questions


Box 113 Folder 2 Harper's Magazine, 2010 March

Six More Considerations: The Cornmeal; Dinner; The Dog Hair; The Song; The Language of the Telephone Company; The Party


Box 113 Folder 2 Harper's Magazine, 2010 November

Translations of Five Stories by Gustave Flaubert: The Cook's Lesson; The Visit to the Dentist; The Coachman and the Worm; The Chairs; Pouchet's Wife


Box 113 Folder 2 Harper's Magazine, 2013 April

Not Intererested


Box 113 Folder 2 Harper's Magazine, 2013 September

The Two Davises and the Rug


Box 113 Folder 2 Harper's Magazine, 2017 July

Churl Next Door - Translations of Marcel Proust's letters to his neighbors


Box 113 Folder 3 Harper's Magazine, 2017 October

Under Forum - All Over This Land: Local Politics in the Age of Trump - Davis contributed a piece on Rensselaer County, New York


Box 113 Folder 3 Harper's Magazine, 2018 March

Pardon the Intrusion


Box 113 Folder 3 Harper's Magazine, 2019 January

Addie and the Chili


Box 113 Folder 3 Harper's Magazine, 2019 August

New Things in My Life



Box 103 Harpur Palate (Volume 2, Number 2), 2002 Winter

Letter to a Funeral Parlor; A Mown Lawn



Box 113 Harvard Design Magazine (Number 44), 2017 Fall / Winter

Pages from a Teenage Journal



Box 103 Harvard Review (Number 31), 2006

Meeting Abraham Lincoln (Essay)


Box 103 Hayden's Ferry Review (Issue 27), 2000-2001 Fall/Winter

City People; Boring Friends; Housewife; The Movies Last Night; A Visit Before the Birth



Box 114 Folder 1 Hodos (6), [1990?]

Three Poems - The Fishtank; The Old Fish; Companion


Box 114 Folder 1 House & Garden, 1987 July

Translation of Jean-Marie Baron's "Parisian Exotic: The luminous Left Bank apartment of François and Carole Rochas"


Box 114 Folder 1 HOW(ever) (Volume IV, Number 2), 1987 October

Essay on the fragment. Davis notes that this has been transcribed into a computer file called Fragment.ess.doc (6/2/2017).



Box 103 l'Inconvènient (Number 9), 2002 mai

In French. La lettre


Box 103 l'Inconvènient (Number 14), 2003 août

In French. Journal thyroïdien



Box 92 Folder 9 Impulse (Volume 10, Number 4), 1983 Fall

Translation of Maurice Blanchot's The Right Time.



Box 103 Indiana Review (Volume 12, Number 1), 1988 Winter

From Below, as a Neighbor; Disagreement; Agreement


Box 103 Insurance (Issue 1), 2000

Samuel Johnson is Indignant; A Matter of Perspective; Special Chair; Two Uses of Remember


Box 103 Inventory (Issue 1), 2010

Gustave Flaubert, excerpt from Madame Bovary translated from the French by Davis



Box 104 The Iowa Review (Volume 40, Number 2), 2010 Fall

Three Dreams - The Dog; The Grandmother; The Child



Box 114 Folder 2 Joe (Volume 1, Number 2), 1999

The Meeting


Box 114 Folder 2 John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 1), 1982 Spring

from Liminal: The Little Man


Box 114 Folder 2 John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 2), 1982 Summer

Television; How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House; The Cottages


Box 114 Folder 2 John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 3/4), 1983 Winter

In Number 3 - The Sock


Box 114 Folder 2 John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 5), 1983 Fall

Brooklyn Diary I: The Change of Season


Box 114 Folder 2 John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 6), 1984 Summer

Brooklyn Diary II: A Dull Story About a Hot Day


Box 114 Folder 2 John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 7), 1986 Summer

Television Notes



Box 104 Jubilat (33.5), 2018

The Tasters



Box 115 Folder 2 Linea (Volume 2), 2020 Winter

Explanation Concerning a Story



Box 104 Lìnears de fuga (Number 3), 2000 Abril-Junio

In Spanish. Extractos de una Vida


Box 104 The Journal (Volume 41, Number 3), 2017 Summer

An Ant


Box 104 The Literary Review (Volume 45, Number 3), 2002 Summer

A Problem Sentence in Proust's The Way by Swann's


Box 104 Little Star (Issue 1), 2010

Judgment; The Sky Above Los Angeles; Handel; Housekeeping Observation; Sitting with My Little Friend


Box 104 Little Star (Issue 5), 2014

Our Village (Poem)


Box 104 Little Star (Issue 6), 2015

Translations of A. L. Snijder's A Woman; Africa; Eva; The Baker's Wife; Town Line; In Louth



Box 114 Folder 3 Luna Tack: A Journal of Literature and Art (5/6), 1984 October

The Letter


Box 114 Folder 3 Magazine (Volume 13, Number 1), 1983 Winter

Story; Visit to Her Husband


Box 114 Folder 3 Magazine (Volume 13, Number 2), 1983 Spring

Liminal: The Little Man


Box 114 Folder 3 Manuskripte Zeitschrift Für Literatur (191), 2011

In German. Der Spaziergang.


Box 114 Folder 3 Manuskripte Zeitschrift Für Literatur (198), 2012

In English. The Man, His Hands.


Box 114 Folder 4 Materials (Number 3), 2014 February

Translations of A. L. Snijders' Christmas 13; Christmas Present; The Sheep



Box 111 McSweeney's (Issue 5), 2000 Very Late Summer

Letters; and Marie Curie, Honorable Woman



Box 114 Folder 4 McSweeney's (Issue 42), 2012

Translation of A. L. Snijders' Luck



Box 111 McSweeney's (Issue 50), 2017

Fear of Loose Tongue; Opportunistic Seed; Two Mayors and a Word; Philosophical Question Posed by Stranger in Pamphlet



Box 116 Folder 2 Metro Times, 1997 November 12-18

Our Trip


Box 116 Folder 2 Minnesota Daily - Northern Lit Quarterly, 1986 December 8-13

Sixty Cents



Box 104 Mississippi Review (Volume 40, Number 3), 2013 Winter

A Small Story About a Box of Chocolates; Her Geography: Alabama; Her Geography: Illinois; The Washerwoman (from Stories from Flaubert); I'm Pretty Comfortable, But I Could Be a Little More Comfortable


Box 104 Modern Language Studies (Volume 43, Number 1), 2013 Summer

Letter to the President of the American Biographical Institute, Inc.; Molly, Female Cat: Background and Current Medical Condition; Hello Dear; Contingency (vs. Necessity), 2: On Vacation


Box 104 Monkey (Volume 12), 2017 Summer/Fall

In Japanese. On Learning Norwegian.



Box 115 Folder 5 Neue Rundschau - American Places Issue, circa 2008?

East Nassau. File includes printouts of manuscripts, etc. in English but not the original issue.



Box 104 New American Writing (Number 10), 1992 Fall

The Great-Grandmothers; Our Kindness; In the Garment District; A Second Chance; The Lamplighter


Box 104 New Ohio Review (6), 2009 Fall

In Stories You May Have Missed - Davis on "Maggie May" by Lucia Berlin


Box 104 New Ohio Review (13), 2013 Spring

from an alphabet of Proust Translation Problems: Z



Box 114 Folder 5 New York (50th Anniversary), 2017 October 16-29

See p. 126, under "My Salesman" about the Fuller Brush salesman



Box 116 Folder 3 New York Times Book Review, 1985 June 30

Davis' review of Michael Rio's Parrot's Perch, translated by Leigh Hafrey.


Box 116 Folder 3 New York Times Book Review, 2011 June 12

Davis' review of Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations, translated by John Ashbery.



Box 114 Folder 5 The New Yorker, 2000 September 25

Thyroid Diary



Box 109 Noon, 2000

Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey. Excerpt, translated by Davis.


Box 109 Noon, 2001

Seven Considerations: Insomnia; Certain Knowledge, from Herodotus; Away From Home; Honoring the Subjunctive; Information from the North Concerning the Ice; Tidy; Acknowledgment


Box 109 Noon, 2002

Ana Rosa González Matute - One Afternoon (Translation in progress of a story in Spanish by Lydia Davis).


Box 109 Noon, 2003

Includes an interview with Davis' translator, Ana Rosa González Matute, by Deb Olin Unferth, titled "Translating the Translator." Also includes four of Davis' stories - A Second Chance; Mothers; What She Knew; Two Sisters - in English, alongside González Matute's Spanish translations.



Box 110 Noon, 2005

Translation, from the Swedish, of Einar Norelius' The Three Singing Trolls


Box 110 Noon, 2006

Dog and Me; Getting to Know Your Body; The Caterpillar; Absentminded


Box 110 Noon, 2007

Translation of Kathrin Röggla's Between Years (My Notebook)


Box 110 Noon, 2008

We Had Wondered What Animal Might Arrive


Box 110 Noon, 2009

Tenth Annivesary Edition. Includes translations of Peter Altenberg's Twelve; The Mouse


Box 110 Noon, 2010

Nine More Considerations: Bloomington; The Cornmeal; Dinner; The Dog Hair; The Language Usage of the Telephone Company; My Footsteps; The Song; The Party; PhD


Box 110 Noon, 2011

Five Considerations: How I Know What I Like; Writing; Their Poor Dog; Master; Learning Ancient History


Box 110 Noon, 2012

Translations of A. L. Snijder's Zkv - Foreward and Eight Stories


Box 110 Noon, 2013

Not Intererested


Box 110 Noon, 2014

Translation, from the Portuguese, of Julio Pecly's Second Chance


Box 110 Noon, 2016

Translation, from the Norwegian, of E. G. Dunker's Six Tales from the Law Courts


Box 110 Noon, 2017

Walter Serner's Last Loosening: A Handbook for Imposters and Those Who Aspire to Be - Excerpts translated from the German by Davis


Box 110 Noon, 2018

Excerpts from a 1985 Diary


Box 110 Noon, 2019

The Language of Armagnac


Box 110 Noon, 2020

Excerpts from a Diary: August 2007 to June 2008



Box 103 Noon, 2021

Excerpts from a Journal: March 1999 to August 2000



Box 104 Notre Dame Review (Number 19), 2005 Winter

Story



Box 114 Folder 5 Notus (Volume 2, Number 1), 1987 Spring

Clouds in the Sky



Box 104 Oink! (18), 1984

A Few Things Wrong With Me


Box 104 Ottotole (Number 2), 1986/1987 Winter

Jack in the Country



Box 102 The Paris Review (88), 1983 Summer

Break It Down



Box 107 The Paris Review (97), 1985 Fall

Three Poems - What She Knew; The Dog Man; The Fish


Box 107 The Paris Review (194), 2010 Fall

Translations of ten stories of Flaubert: The Cook's Lesson; After You Left; The Visit to the Dentist; Pouchet's Wife; The Funeral; The Coachman and the Worm; The Execution; The Chairs; The Exhibition; My School Friend


Box 107 The Paris Review (205), 2013 Summer

If at the Wedding (At the Zoo); The Results of One Statistical Study; The Language of Things in the House; My Childhood Friend; Local Obits



Box 118 The Paris Review (206), 2013 Summer

In Porfolio - Dutch Scenes, curated by Lydia Davis. This copy is marked as the Working Copy for Essays One, and several of the photographs are annotated.



Box 107 The Paris Review (207), 2013 Winter

The Seals


Box 107 The Paris Review (215), 2015 Winter

After Reading Peter Bichsel


Box 107 The Paris Review (229), 2019 Summer

Revising One Sentence (Essay)


Box 107 The Paris Review (234), 2020 Fall

An Incident on the Train; Three Musketeers; What Can You Get For Some of Your Turnips; Tantrums; The Left Hand; Improving My German



Box 104 Parnassus (Volume 15, Number 2), 1989

What Was Interesting



Box 105 Partisan Review (Volume LX, Number 1), 1993

Old Mother and the Grouch


Box 105 Pear Noir! (Number 1), 2009 January

The Bad Novel; Waiting for Takeoff; The Woman Next to Me on the Airplane


Box 105 PEN America (Volume 1, Issue 2), 2001 Fall

In Proust Regained - The Architecture of Thought


Box 105 PEN America (Issue 21), 2018

In Mythologies: A Forum - The People in My Dreams


Box 105 Peqoud (Number 11), 1980

Translation of Maurice Blanchot's Wittgenstein's Problem


Box 105 Peqoud (Number 16/17), 1984

How W.H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House; Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany



Box 118 Rudman, Mark, ed. Secret Destinations: Writers on Travel (Peqoud 19/20/21), 1985

By Davis - To Reiterate. Also, Davis' translations of Michel Butor's The Spirit of Mediterrarean Places. Both include handwritten corrections.



Box 105 Peqoud (Number 32), 1991

Pastor Arlene's Newsletter


Box 105 Peqoud (Number 46), 2003

Marcel Proust - An Excerpt from Swann's Way with Prefatory Note, Translated by Lydia Davis



Box 92 Folder 10 piauí (27), 2008

In Portuguese (Brazil). Assustada de Repente: Un Homem do Passado Dela; Idéia para um Documentário de Curta-Metragem; Assuntos Proibidos; Questões Gramaticais; A Lagarta; Distraído; Assustada de Repente.



Box 105 Ploughshares (Volume 41, Number 2), 2015 Summer

Unhappy Christmas Tree


Box 105 Ploughshares (Volume 42, Number 2), 2016 Summer

Stories by Davis - Caramel Drizzle; Hands on the Wheel; End of Phone Conversation with Verizon Adjustment Person; Second Drink. Translations of Peter Bichsel - Shall I Translate It for You?; Telling Stories About One's Life


Box 105 Poetics Journal (Number 3), 1983 May

Coolidge's "Mine"


Box 105 Poetics Journal (Number 6), 1986

Some Notes on Armantrout's "Precedence"


Box 105 Poetry (Volume 201, Number 5), 2013 February

In Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry - "Les Bluets," 1973


Box 105 Poetry (Volume 203, Number 1), 2013 October

Translations of Pierre Reverdy's Afternoon; At the Edge of Time; Live Flesh; Clock


Box 105 The Quarterly (22), 1992 Summer

Lydia Davis to Q



Box 115 Folder 2 Quick Fiction (Issue 10), 2006

A Different Man



Box 105 Raster (Number 122), 2007

In Dutch. Bijna geen herinnering.



Box 115 Folder 2 Red Weather (Number 2), [1987]

Cockroaches in Autumn



Box 117 Folder 1 Salon Magazine Website, 1997 June

Part of "Mothers Who Think". Includes an interview and the story "The Professor"



Box 105 Salt Hill Journal (3), 1996-1997 Winter

Finances; This Condition


Box 105 Salt Hill Journal (30), 2013

Circular Story; Grade Two Assignment; Short Conversation (in Airport Departure Lounge); Grandpa Bent and the Creation of Narrative



Box 115 Folder 2 Satori (Volume 3, Number 3), 1990 Autumn

The Force of the Subliminal



Box 106 Schreibheft (60), 2003 April

In German. Was interessant ist.



Box 116 Folder 4 El Seminario Cultural (Volume 21, Number 1056), 2002 Julio 14

In Spanish. Liminal: el pequeño hombre.


Box 116 Folder 4 El Seminario Cultural (Volume 21, Number 1058), 2002 Julio 22

In Spanish. Dos hermanas.



Box 106 Série d'écriture (Number 3), 1989

Translation from Jean Frémon's Due



Box 115 Folder 3 Shiny (Number 11), 2000

Money; Childcare; Jury Duty


Box 115 Folder 3 Shiny (Number 13), 2005

Passing Wind


Box 115 Folder 3 Shiny (Number 14), 2008

How Shall I Mourn Them?



Box 106 Southern Humanities Review (Volume 33, Number 1), 1999 Winter

Remember the Van Wagenens (Essay)


Box 106 Stooge (Number 9), [1973 or 1974]

The Brother-In-Law; The Mother


Box 106 Subaru Monthly, 2001 July

In Japanese. St. Martin.


Box 106 Sulfur (6), 1983

The Mouse


Box 106 Sulfur (15), 1986

Includes translations of Michel Leiris


Box 106 Sulfur (45/46 - The Final Issue), 2000 Spring

Priority; Her Damage


Box 106 Sun (Volume V, Number 1), 1983 Winter

The Tasters; Safe Love; Tourist in the Everglades



Box 115 Folder 4 Tammy (Issue 3), 2014

By Davis: Two Characters in a Paragraph; Two Undertakers. Also, translations of A. L. Snijders Baalbek; Box; ULK.


Box 115 Folder 4 Tartine (10), 1993 Juin

In French. Une heure et 20 sculptures.



Box 106 Third Coast (Issue 38/39), 2015 Winter

Translation of A. L. Snijder's Crime Passionel; A Brute, a Little Treasure



Box 116 Folder 4 The Threepenny Review, 2014 Spring

The Letter to the Foundation



Box 111 Tin House (Volume 2, Number 3), 2001 Spring

Letter to a Funeral Parlor


Box 111 Tin House (Volume 7, Number 4), 2006 Summer

Eating Fish Alone


Box 111 Tin House (Volume 12, Number 1), 2010 Fall

Gustave Flaubert, excerpt from Madame Bovary translated by Davis



Box 107 TriQuarterly (87), 1993 Spring/Summer

Meat and My Husband



Box 115 Folder 4 Tweeds (Issue 2), 2014

Energy in Color: On the Recent Paintings of Alan Cote (Essay)



Box 106 Two Lines (Issue 22), 2015 Spring

By Davis - Learning Dutch (Essay). Translations of A. L. Snijder's On the Rebound; Walking.


Box 106 Upstreet (Number 5), 2009

An Awkward Situation


Box 106 Vestoj (Issue 5), 2014

What an Old Woman Will Wear



Box 115 Folder 4 Vinduet (Number 3), 2009

In Norwegian. Fortellinger av Lydia Davis: Enestående; Det Hun Visste; Utflukten; Foucault Og Blyant



Box 106 VQR, 2017 Winter

In a Hotel Room in Ithaca; Not Much to Tell; Community Notice: Redundancy Example #4; Sneezes on the Train


Box 106 VQR, 2019 Summer

"A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked" on Literary Forms and Influences


Box 106 VQR, 2020 Fall

How He Changed Over Time



Box 107 Washington Square, 2009 Summer/Fall

Translations of Peter Altenberg's Autumn in Semmering; The Fire


Box 107 Washington Square, 2012 Winter/Spring

Translations of A. L. Snijders' The Feral Cat; Minor Characters; Jesus


Box 107 Washington Square Review (Number 38), 2016 Fall

Translation of Peter Bichsel's Old Age, Years, Companions of the Same Birth Year



Box 106 Western Humanities Review (Volume 64, Number 1), 2010 Winter

Awake in the Night; The Bodyguard; Can't and Won't; The Last of the Mohicans



Box 107 The White Review (Number 12), 2014

Translations of Snijders' Story (3); The Past; Accountant; No Smoking; The Main Dish; Summer; Grasses and Trees; Oh My Bride



Box 118 The World (Number 48), 1993

Going South; My Son; My Sister and the Queen of England. Davis made handwritten revisions to My Sister and the Queen of England in this copy.



Box 107 The World (Number 52), 1996

A Position at the University; The Family


Box 107 The Yale Journal of Criticism (Volume 8, Number 2), 1995 Fall

Michel Leiris - Excerpt from Scraps edited and translated by Davis


Box 107 The Yale Review (Volume 92, Number 2), 2004 April

Loaf or Hot Water Bottle: Closely Translating Proust (Essay)


Box 107 The Yale Review (Volume 107, Number 4), 2019 Fall-Winter

Changing My Mind: On sources, revision, and order (Essay)


Subseries VIII.2: Publications with Annotations / Revisions, 1985-2013

This subseries contains copies of publications where Davis made either annotations, corrections, or revisions in the published copy.



Box 118 Conjunctions (11), [1988]

There are some handwritten revisions and notes on revisions in Confusions.


Box 118 Conjunctions (13), 1989

Go Away; Soon After Falling Asleep; How He is Often Right. There are some notes indicating stories were used and /or combined for Almost No Memory.


Box 118 Conjunctions (38), 2002

Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.



Box 92 Folder 10 "Du" Magazine, 2010 Juni

German language publication in Switzerland. In German. Includes interview with Davis by Thomas David, and several short stories: Fragen Der Grammatik; Idee Für Einen Kurzen Dokumentarfilm; Die Sprache Der Telefongesellschaft; Zwanzig Skupturen Innerhalb Einter Stunde; Bloomington; Polenta; Gepäckaufbewahrung; Dinner; Hundehaar; Meinne Fussstapfen; Der Gesang; Die Party; Drin Phil [with the "in" in superscript]; Formen Der Verstörung. There are handwritten annotations indicating that several of the stories were "in Decision", which may be another German magazine.



Box 118 The Paris Review (206), 2013 Summer

In Porfolio - Dutch Scenes, curated by Lydia Davis. This copy is marked as the Working Copy for Essays One, and several of the photographs are annotated.


Box 118 Rudman, Mark, ed. Secret Destinations: Writers on Travel (Peqoud 19/20/21), 1985

By Davis - To Reiterate. Also, Davis' translations of Michel Butor's The Spirit of Mediterrarean Places. Both include handwritten corrections.


Box 118 The World (Number 48), 1993

Going South; My Son; My Sister and the Queen of England. Davis made handwritten revisions to My Sister and the Queen of England in this copy.


Subseries VIII.3: Publications with Interviews, 1997-2021

This subseries contains publications that include interviews of Davis.



Box 117 580 Split (Issue 19), 2017

Interview by Deborah Sherman



Box 116 Folder 5 Believer (50th Issue), 2008 January

Interview - Davis on Samuel Beckett



Box 117 Bomb: The Author Interviews (Betsy Sussler, ed.), 2014 (1997)

This copy is an advance uncopyedited sampler. It includes an interview with Davis by Francine Prose from Bomb 60 (1997). Includes cover letter.



Box 116 Folder 1 Bookforum, 2003 Fall

Interview; primarily related to translating Marcel Proust.



Box 117 Contemporary Literature (Volume 40, Number 4), 1999 Winter

Interview by Christopher Knight



Box 92 Folder 10 "Du" Magazine, 2010 Juni

German language publication in Switzerland. In German. Includes interview with Davis by Thomas David, and several short stories: Fragen Der Grammatik; Idee Für Einen Kurzen Dokumentarfilm; Die Sprache Der Telefongesellschaft; Zwanzig Skupturen Innerhalb Einter Stunde; Bloomington; Polenta; Gepäckaufbewahrung; Dinner; Hundehaar; Meinne Fussstapfen; Der Gesang; Die Party; Drin Phil [with the "in" in superscript]; Formen Der Verstörung. There are handwritten annotations indicating that several of the stories were "in Decision", which may be another German magazine.



Box 117 Five Points (Volume 15, Number 3), 2013

The Magic of the Train; Her Birthday, plus translations of A.L. Snijder's Ukiyo-e; Baldur; Story; and Flapsour. Includes an interview with Davis by Sarah Winterfield.


Box 117 The Gihon River Review (Volume 17), 2011 Fall

Interview by Gabrielle Loux


Box 117 La Granada 5, 2014

In Norwegian. Interview by Ingrid Melfald Hafredal.


Box 117 The Interrobang (Issue 3), 2007 Fall

Interview by Lena Valencia and Risa Kahn


Box 117 Meridian (Issue 21), 2008 May

Interview by Drew Johnson and Will Boast


Box 117 Meridian (Issue 38), 2017 Winter

Interview by Caitlin Fitzpatrick



Box 116 Folder 5 Objecktiv (Number 12), [2015?]

Interview by Nina Strand - primarily on Knud Knudsen, a Norwegian photographer. In English.



Box 117 The Paris Review (212), 2015 Spring

Interview



Box 116 Folder 5 Rain Taxi (Volume 14, Number 1), 2009 Spring

Interview by Leonard Schwartz


Box 116 Folder 5 Rapportage (Volume XI), 2008

Interview / Article on; by Melissa Kashner



Box 117 Rediviper (Volume 8, Issue 2), 2011 Spring/Summer

Interview by Brooks Sterritt


Box 117 The Reflector (50th Anniversary), 2007

Interview by Michael Manis. Davis notes that there are inaccuracies in the intro, made handwritten annotations.


Box 117 Folder 1 Salon Magazine Website, 1997 June

Part of "Mothers Who Think". Includes an interview and the story "The Professor"


Box 117 Tin House (Volume 10, Number 1), 2008 Fall

Includes Davis' answers to "Three Questions"


Box 117 Upstreet (Number 2), 2006

Interview by Frank Tempone


Box 117 The White Review (30), 2021 March

Interview


Subseries VIII.4: Publications with Reviews / Mentions of Davis' Work, 1977-2009

This subseries contains publications with reviews or other mentions of Davis' work.



Box 116 Folder 1 The American Book Review (Volume II, Number 2), 1979 October

Includes review of Davis' translation of Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence.


Box 116 Folder 1 Belles Lettres, 1987 November/December

Includes review of Break It Down.


Box 116 Folder 2 Context (Number 6), 2001

Includes "Reading Lydia Davis" that includes reviews of her work.


Box 116 Folder 2 London Review of Books (Volume 19, Number 7), 1997 April 3

Brief mention of Lydia Davis on page 20, in a review of Joan Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted.


Box 116 Folder 3 The New Yorker, 1995 June 12

Hilton Als' review of The End of the Story



Box 114 Folder 5 Nit & Wit, 1987 April

Break It Down included in "The Top Ten 1986 Short Story Collections"



Box 116 Folder 3 Poets & Writers Magazine, 1999 January/February

Included in Roger Gathman's essay, "How the Novel Imagines Us."


Box 116 Folder 4 San Francisco Review of Books (Volume 2, Number 11), 1977 March

Includes review of The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories with the reviews of Women Poets.


Box 116 Folder 4 Times Literary Supplement, 2009 November 13

Includes a review of Davis' translation of Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow (Point de Lendemain) , as well as a review of Davis' Collected Stories.