The author of Varieties of Disturbance wrote shorter stories. They were shorter than the author's books that Mostafa Mastoor translated into Persian and Spanish.
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American writer noted for literary works of extreme brevity (commonly called "flash fiction"). 
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938  August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. 
 Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. 
Varieties of Disturbance is Lydia Davis's fourth collection of short stories. 
 He has translated Carver's books into Persian. 
