Background
Williams, Diane was born on January 16, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William Maurice and Mary Rosen Swartz.
( In the forty-one stories and novella collected here, Di...)
In the forty-one stories and novella collected here, Diane Williams probes the dangerous terrain of the family romance and the eternal bafflement of being alive. In stories that are as short as prose poems and as complex as novels, Williams creates worlds that are sensual, and where quiet epiphanies are possible. The hero of the novella On Sexual Strength explores his perplexing lust for his neighbor's wife. As he crosses the boundaries of good behavior and good sense at every opportunity, he ingeniously narrates his adventure as both tragedy and escapade. Celebrated for her linguistic inventiveness, Diane Williams's new stories and novella continue to advance her inimitable voice.
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(Praising her ingenious subversions of the conventions of ...)
Praising her ingenious subversions of the conventions of narrative. The New York Times has called Diane Williams "a master spy, a double agent in the house of fiction." In this book she broadens the riotously disruptive program of her earlier collections. piecing together stories out of jagged shards of consciousness to give form to our most complicated longings. In the title novella, Williams offers her version of paradise: A woman runs off with a man on an enchanted journey across an enchanted landscape to an enchanted house, where their time is spent proving all the pleasures -- eating, drinking, bathing, slumbering, and coupling -- and where fantastic creatures, ravishing objects, and enthralling notions present themselves. But this sensual, blissful tale also becomes, in the female narrator's artful telling, a vehicle of discovery as she passes from state to state eluding our expectations of her. The novella, Williams's first longer work, is accompanied by forty-nine short pieces, all of them superbly wry and knowing instances of the "sudden fiction" for which she is renowned. The Stupefaction is a stunning illumination of the heart and mind from one of our most innovative and audacious writers.
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( Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture l...)
Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture life, love, and contradiction in a single page, Diane Williams continues to forge her own innovative tradition in this new collection. Including over three dozen short stories along with three novellas, Romancer Erector is her boldest collection to date. Here she once again astonishes us with her distinctive voice, detached yet fiercely intimate. As one critic writes: "the effect is original, as if a strange little memory has insinuated itself into the reader's own memory, to remain there...incapable of assimilation." Like intricately wrapped gifts, these tales deliver the hidden, the haunted, the charms, the bell, the mansions inside of the human heart.
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Williams, Diane was born on January 16, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William Maurice and Mary Rosen Swartz.
Bachelor in English Literature, University Pennsylvania, 1968.
Assistant editor J. G. Ferguson division Doubleday, New York City, 1969—1971, Scott, Foresman Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1971—1973. Associate editor Science Research Associate, Chicago, 1973—1976. Co-editor StoryQuarterly, Glenview, 1985—1997.
Founding editor NOON, New York City, since 2000. Visiting assistant professor Syracuse (New York ) University, 1999. Visiting associate professor Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2001.
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( In the forty-one stories and novella collected here, Di...)
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Married Paul Casey Williams, June 28, 1970 (divorced 1993). Children: Jacob, Alexander.