Can't And Won't: Stories - Softcover

"Widely considered one of the most original minds in American fiction today." --Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker

"This is what the best and most original literature can do: make us more acutely aware of life on and off the page." --Peter Orner, The New York Times Book Review

"[Can't and Won't] is evidence of a writer who is in total control of her own peculiar original voice; its ¬pleasures are un¬expected and manifold." --Kate Christensen, Elle

"A master of sequencing. Davis mixes long and short dispatches to intoxicating effect." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"The most revolutionary collection of stories by an American in twenty-five years." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe

"Drop everything and pick up Lydia Davis's fifth collection of short stories . . . Observation, drama, and (yes) compression--it's all there, giving the most minor moments a kind of epic weight." --David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

"Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive." --Claire Messud, Financial Times

"Davis dances right up to and around that final mystery that can't, won't, and must be borne, that most inexplicable magic trick, life's vanishing act." --Parul Sehgal, NPR

"Davis is official literary dynamite . . . Everything she writes looks effortless." --San Francisco Chronicle