Essays One Business_Gift_Guide • Be your own protector:

• Be your own protector: Create a last-resort emergency plan

and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history

wickedly playful man who surrounds himself only with dolls of his own making

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Essays One Business_Gift_Guide • Be your own protector:A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self consciousness, while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive. Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Daviss gifts