Lydia Davis - We Read a One-Minute Short Story and Argue If It's a Story for 49 Minutes
Cole brings us one of the great living short story writers, and we argue whether her stories are stories at all, until Jaclynn gets the last word.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Cole makes the case for Lydia Davis, the MacArthur Fellow and Man Booker International Prize winner whose stories can run a single line. Robby read one and found it charming. Jaclynn has a Rothko theory for why she hasn't gotten Davis yet. We read a story aloud, hear Davis in interviews and readings, and fight about what the word "story" even means. You don't need to know her work first, and by the end Jaclynn has her answer.
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