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Samuel Johnson is Indignant

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20011211
Author:Anonymous

SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT

by lydia davis MCSWEENEY'S BOOKS, 201 PP., $17 In her latest collection of stories, Davis deploys her gift for verbal clarity to draw up intricate guides through experiences of bemusement, annoyance, and high anxiety. A wordplaying crank rails against over-groomed lawns; a woman makes a Zen-influenced New Year's resolution to "see myself as nothing,' but then wonders if she has set her goals too high. Many of these stories portray hyperanalytic isolation, but Davis's work is too well-modulated, hilarious, and well-meaning to drift into simplistic cul-de-sacs of ...

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