You have no doubt already read Brendan Kiley's great piece about the bizarre pleasures of loving Lydia Davis. But we have just put up the unexpurgated e-mail interview between Kiley and Davis for your reading pleasure:

...at a time when I was stuck in my writing, a few years later, I happened to read the stories—what he calls poems—of Russell Edson. The volume of his that I read contains short, mostly domestic tales in which not all the protagonists are human. It also helped me that not all the pieces were successful—I could see how to attempt something and not mind failing. I set myself the exercise of writing two paragraph-long stories each day.

Give it a look over your lunch.