{"id":15460,"date":"2011-05-06T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=15460"},"modified":"2011-05-09T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T18:25:34","slug":"staff-picks-geoff-dyer-lydia-daviss-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/staff-picks-geoff-dyer-lydia-daviss-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Geoff Dyer, Lydia Davis&#8217;s Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lydiadaviscows.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lydiadaviscows.png 280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lydiadaviscows-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/>Thanks to a three-day flu I read Rebecca Wolff\u2019s witchy coming-of-age novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beginners-Rebecca-Wolff\/dp\/1594487995\/\">The Beginners<\/a><\/em>, then stayed up late reading the <em>rest<\/em> of Jennifer Egan\u2019s juggernaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan\/dp\/0307477479\/\"><em>A Visit From the<\/em><em> Goon Squad<\/em><\/a> (it lives up to the <em>New Yorker<\/em> excerpts), then started rereading Geoff Dyer\u2019s deeply charming book on photography, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ongoing-Moment-Geoff-Dyer\/dp\/1400031680\/\">The Ongoing Moment<\/a><\/em>, plus a bunch of his old magazine pieces, now newly collected in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Otherwise-Known-Human-Condition-Selected\/dp\/1555975798\/\">Otherwise Known as the Human Condition<\/a><\/em> &#8230; all worth a good deal of coughing and sneezing. \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I picked up Lydia Davis\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cows-Quarternote-Chapbook-Lydia-Davis\/dp\/1932511938\">The Cows<\/a><\/em>, a chapbook about, well, the cows that live across from her. \u201cShe moos toward the wooded hills behind her, and the sound comes back. 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Friedersdorf has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/05\/nearly-100-fantastic-pieces-of-journalism\/238230\/<br ><\/a> &#8220;>a list of nearly 100 superb nonfiction pieces<\/a> from 2010 for every one of us to start diligently plowing through. 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