Published in 2023
1 hour and 20 minutes
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. She is the author of ten previous volumes of short fiction. She lives in New York City.
What is this book about?
Diane Williams, “godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review), returns with thirty-three brilliant short stories.
In Williams’s stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally wild wit, Williams shows us how any moment of any day can open onto disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.
