The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over three hundred new and previously published short Stories as well as three novellas--distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction.
She lives in New York City..
She is the author of eight previous volumes of short fiction.
It\'s a rare feeling her Stories trigger, but it\'s a keen and deep and welcome one, the sort of feeling that wakes us up to complication and beauty and dissonance and fragility."About the Author: Diane Williams is the founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual, NOON, the archive of which, as well as Williams\' personal literary archive, was acquired in 2014 by the Lilly Library.
The Williams epiphany should be patented, or bottled--on the other hand, it should also be regulated and maybe rationed, because it\'s severe.
These Stories upend expectations and prize enigma and the uncanny above all else.
But if sense is in short supply in these texts, that leaves more room for splendor and sorrow.
They thumb their nose at conventional sense, or even unconventional sense.
They defy logic.
The Stories are short.
She\'s a hero of the form: the sudden fiction, the flash fiction, whatever it\'s being called these days.
From Ben Marcus\' introduction to The Collected Stories of Diane Williams "Diane Williams has spent her long, prolific career concocting fictions of perfect strangeness, most of them no more than a page long.
The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over three hundred new and previously published short Stories as well as three novellas--distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction
