{"id":95608,"date":"2016-03-29T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95608"},"modified":"2016-03-29T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:05:51","slug":"how-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/how-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow Difficult\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-spring-revel\" target=\"_blank\">Spring Revel<\/a> is April 5. In anticipation of the event, the<\/em> Daily<em> is featuring a series of posts celebrating Lydia Davis, who is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/get-your-tickets-to-our-spring-revel\/\" target=\"_blank\">honored this year with <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/get-your-tickets-to-our-spring-revel\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Paris Review<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/get-your-tickets-to-our-spring-revel\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2019s Hadada Award<\/a>. Here, the artist Aidan Koch has adapted into comics Davis\u2019s story \u201cHow Difficult,\u201d which was originally published in the collection <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780312420567\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Johnson Is Indignant<\/a> <em>(2001). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aidan-howdifficult.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95610\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-95610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aidan-howdifficult-419x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Aidan-howdifficult\" width=\"491\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aidan-howdifficult-419x1024.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aidan-howdifficult-123x300.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aidan-howdifficult.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Aidan Koch is a multimedia artist working in New York City. She has published several graphic novels, including <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/spacefacebooks.com\/products\/the-blonder-woman-by-aidan-koch\" target=\"_blank\">The Blonde Woman<\/a><em>, which won a Xeric Award, and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peradam.info\/publications.html\" target=\"_blank\">Impressions<\/a><em>. Her short comic story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/6396\/heavenly-seas-aidan-koch\">Heavenly Seas<\/a>\u201d was featured in <\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u2019s\u00a0Summer 2015 issue. Her drawings are on view in the group show \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/companygallery.us\/exhibitions\/someday-this-will-be-funny\/\" target=\"_blank\">Someday This Will Be Funny<\/a>,\u2019\u2019 at Company in New York, through April 3.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Spring Revel is April 5. In anticipation of the event, the Daily is featuring a series of posts celebrating Lydia Davis, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review\u2019s Hadada Award. Here, the artist Aidan Koch has adapted into comics Davis\u2019s story \u201cHow Difficult,\u201d which was originally published in the collection Samuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[794],"tags":[18323,35,131,1465,71,2122,576,795,21370,21699,7845],"class_list":["post-95608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-revel","tag-aidan-koch","tag-art","tag-comics","tag-drawing","tag-fiction","tag-hadada","tag-lydia-davis","tag-revel","tag-revel-2016","tag-samuel-johnson-is-indignant","tag-short-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Difficult: A Comics Adaptation of Lydia Davis\u2019s Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To celebrate our Spring Revel, which will honor Lydia Davis, the artist Aidan Koch draws Davis\u2019s short story \u201cHow Difficult.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/how-difficult\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cHow Difficult\u201d by Aidan Koch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 29, 2016 \u2013 Our Spring Revel is April 5. 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