The collected stories of Lydia Davis

Break it down (1986)

Almost no memory (1997)

Samuel Johnson is indignant (2001)

Varieties of disturbance (2007).

Break it down (1986). Story

The fears of Mrs. Orlando

Liminal: the little man

Break it down

Mr. Burdoff's visit to Germany

What she knew

The fish

Mildred and the oboe

The mouse

The letter

Extracts from a life

The house plans

The brother-in-law

How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend's house

Mothers

In a house besieged

Visit to her husband

Cockroaches in Autumn

The bone

A few things wrong with me

Sketches for a life of Wassilly

City employment

Two sisters

The mother

Therapy

French lesson I: Le meurtre

Once a very stupid man

The housemaid

The cottages

Safe love

Problem

What an old woman will wear

The sock

Five signs of distrubance

Almost no memory (1997). Meat, my husband

Jack in the country

Foucault and pencil

The mice

The thirteenth woman

The professor

The cedar trees

The cats in the prison recreation hall

Wife One in country

The fish tank

The center of the story

Love

Our kindness

A natural disaster

Odd behavior

St. Martin

Agreement

In the Garment District

Disagreement

The actors

What was interesting

In the Everglades

The family

Trying to learn

To reiterate

Lord Royston's tour

The other

A friend of mine

This condition

Go away

Pastor Elaine's newsletter

A man in our town

A second chance

Fear

Almost no memory

Mr. Knockly

How he is often right

The rape of the Tanuk women

What I feel

Lost things

Glen Gould

Smoke

From below, as a neighbor

The great-grandmothers

Ethics

The house behind

The outing

A position at the university

Examples of confusion

The race of the patient motorcyclists

Affinity

Samuel Johnson is indignant (2001). Boring friends

A mown lawn

City people

Betrayal

The white tribe

Our trip

Special chair

Certain knowledge from Herodotus

Priority

The meeting

Companion

Blind date

Examples of Remember

Old Mother and the grouch

Samuel Johnson is indignant:

New Year's resolution

First grade: handwriting practice

Interesting

Happiest moment

Jury duty

A double negative

The old dictionary

Honoring the subjunctive

How difficult

Losing memory

Letter to a funeral parlor

Thyroid diary

Information from the North concerning the ice:

Murder in Bohemia

Happy memories

They take turns using a word they like

Marie Curie, so honorable woman

Mir the Hessian

My neighbors in a foreign place

Oral history (with hiccups)

The patient

Right and wrong

Alvin the Typesetter

Special

Selfish

My husband and I

Spring spleen

Her damage

Workingmen

In a northern country

Away from home

Company

Finances

The transformation

Two sisters (II) The furnace

Young and poor

The silence of Mrs. Iln

Almost over: separate bedrooms

Money

Varieties of disturbance (2007). A man from her past

Dog and me

Enlightened The good taste contest

Collaboration with fly

Kafka cooks dinner

Tropical storm

Good Times

Idea for a short documentary film

Forbidden subjects

Two types

The senses

Grammar questions

Hand

The caterpillar

Child care

We miss you: a study of get-well letters from a class of fourth-graders

Passing wind

Television

Jane and the cane

Getting to know your body

Absentminded

Southward bound, reads Worstward Ho

The walk

Varieties of disturbance

Lonely

Mrs. D and her maids

20 sculptures in one hour

Nietszche

What you learn about the baby

Her mother's mother

How it is done

Insomnia

Burning family members

The way to perfection

The fellowship

Helen and Vi: a study in health and vitality

Reducing expenses

Mother's reaction to my travel plans

For sixty cents

How shall I mourn them?

A strange impulse

How she could not drive

Suddenly afraid

Getting better

Head, heart

The strangers

The busy road

Order

The fly

Traveling with mother

Index entry

My son

Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room

Cape Cod diary

Almost over: what's the word?

A different man.