Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose—part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis.” — Elle From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see her