From “Collected Short Stories of Lydia Davis”

 Extracts from a life

 The Brother in Law From “Can't and Won't”

 Mothers  Letter to a frozen peas manufacturer

 How I read as quickly as possible through my back
 Visit to her husband issues of the TLS

 A few things wrong with me  Notes during long phone conversation with mother

 The mother  Men

 Safe Love  A woman, thirty

 Problem  Can't and Won't

 The mice

 The 13th woman

 What was interesting

 Almost no memory

 How he is often right

 Lost things

 The outing

 Affinity

 Boring friends

 Samuel Johnson is indignant:

 Letter to a funeral parlor

 Thyroid Diary

 Spring Spleen

 Away from homw

 Almost over: separate bedrooms

 A man from her past

 The good taste contest

 The senses

 Grammar questions

 For sixty cents

 Suddenly afraid