Word Pirates loves Lydia Davis. She has a style like no other, and really gets to the core of emotions without a lot of fuss. A critic accused her of having all autistic narrators, because she does not have characters relate directly to each other in her stories. Here’s part of her response:

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

Lots of good stuff on the craft of writing in this interview. I don’t approach things the way she does, but there’s something about hearing a writer articulate how she does something that makes me think about my own technique in a new way. She calls her work “isolated events in a context of mystery” … intriguing!
Believer Lydia Davis interview