Man-Booker International Prize winner and National Book Award Finalist Lydia Davis was selected to give the prestigious keynote Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale University in September 2024. Yale University Press will publish a book expanding on this lecture. The books in this series have quickly become beloved works on craft from some of the most inventive and thoughtful writers of our time, including Patti Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Eileen Myles, Samuel Delany, and Joy Harjo.