Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Presents a collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a funeral home that receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors.

Lydia Davis is the author of the story collection ALMOST NO MEMORY and BREAK IT DOWN, and the novel THE END OF THE STORY. Her stories have been translated into French, German, and Spanish and widely published in literary magazines, among them The New Yorker, McSweeney's, City Lights Review, Conjunctions, Grand Street, Harper's and The Paris Review. She is a noted translator from the French of works by Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Pierre Jean Jouve, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others. Her awards include the Guggenheim, the Lannan Foundation Award, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award and a Chevalier from the French government. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College.