This author's collection Our Strangers is expected to debut in October 2023. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author whose story "Index Entry" consists entirely of the sentence "Christian, I'm not a." She wrote Essays One, Essays Two, and Varieties of Disturbance.
ANSWER: Lydia Davis
[10m] Davis writes many stories in this genre of extremely short fiction, which is generally defined as works of less than 1,500 or 1,000 words.
ANSWER: flash fiction [or minimalist fiction; or microfiction; or microstories; or short short stories; prompt on sudden fiction or dribble or drabble or twitterature]
[10e] A story by Davis consists of a sentence stating that this author "is indignant that Scotland has so few trees." This author of a Dictionary of the English Language had his life chronicled by James Boswell.
ANSWER: Samuel Johnson
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