Contributors

Lydia Davis

Contributor History

Five Stories, Conjunctions:11
Three Stories, Conjunctions:13
Lord Royston’s Tour, Conjunctions:15
Four Stories, Conjunctions:17
Five Dark Tales, Conjunctions:18
Five Stories, Conjunctions:24
Broaching Difficult Dahlberg, Conjunctions:29
New Year’s Resolution, Multimedia 07-13-1998 (mp3, 00:02:20)
1944 Journal, Conjunctions:31
The Old Dictionary, Multimedia 06-02-1999 (mp3, 00:05:18)
Happy Memories, Conjunctions:34
From The Way by Swann’s, Conjunctions:38
Two Stories, Conjunctions:47
Reversible Story, Conjunctions:59

Biography

Lydia Davis’s recent books are The Collected Short Stores of Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a new translation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (Viking Penguin), and a chapbook entitled The Cows (Sarabande).

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Transfer

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by Laura van den Berg

November 15, 2018

After the sudden death of my employer, I was tasked with overseeing the transfer of his personal library. The books would travel from his studio in New York City to an arts foundation in Italy, where my employer had once enjoyed a long and productive stay, many years in the past.

The Malingerers

by Kristine Ong Muslim

November 13, 2018

8:00 p.m. in this perpetual night shift, and we talk again to the person inside the photo booth, you know, that one photo booth that tunnels all the way down—or up, depending on where you are—to that familiar place where all afterlife and underworld mythologies owe their artifice, the predictability of salvation they purport to deliver.

Days of Heaven

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by A. D. Jameson

November 8, 2018

A grown-up man not unlike me is trying to coax a struggling child into a box. That’s badly phrased and only a single sentence in we are in need of starting over.