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Our Spring Revel<\/a> is tonight. In anticipation of the event, the<\/em> Daily is featuring a series of posts celebrating Lydia Davis, who is being honored this year with <\/a><\/em>The Paris Review<\/a>\u2019s Hadada Award<\/a>. Here, the illustrator Roman Muradov has adapted into comics Davis\u2019s story \u201cIn a House Besieged,\u201d which was originally published in the collection <\/em>Break It Down (1986). <\/em><\/p>\n

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Roman Muradov<\/a> is an award-winning illustrator and the author of <\/em>(In A Sense) Lost & Found<\/a>, <\/em>Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art<\/a>, and <\/em>The End of a Fence<\/a>. He recently designed and illustrated the centennial editions of James Joyce\u2019s <\/em>Dubliners and <\/em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for Penguin Classics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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