A review by hortongr
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis

3.0

picked this up on a whim at used book store & it made for a great cross-country flight read. didn’t put it down for almost the entire 5 hours. did i love it? not necessarily… some of the short stories i think just went way over my head, some were offputting, some seemed like nonsense, and some were literally just 4 words, BUT some were really rather nice. I dog-eared the ones i liked most and a fair amount of pages now have the bottom corner turned up, so i feel it deserves a 3, even if i did skip a handful of short stories at the end (I could not bring myself to read Letters to the Foundation at all). also, unlike many of the other reviews, i really did enjoy reading The Cows—that one really might’ve been my favorite :)