In these pages, written in 2021, I seem to have been looking back at earlier notes and journals. The story of Pierreโa French shepherdโis a project imagined decades ago that I still have not given up on. My โtheoriesโ are also still interesting to me: for instance, that maybe certain people are more inclined to violence when there is less sensuality of other kinds in their lives.
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Lydia Davisโs story collection Our Strangers will be published in fall 2023 by Bookshop Editions. Selections from her 1996 journalsย appear in the Reviewโs new Summer issue, no. 244.