num_pages: 785
description: With over three hundred new and previously published short stories as well as three novellas The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together distilled works of unsettling brilliance ( Vanity Fair ) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction.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. Shes a hero of the the sudden fiction the flash fiction whatever its being called these days. The stories are short. They defy logic. They thumb their nose at conventional sense or even unconventional sense. But if sense is in short supply in these texts that leaves more room for splendor and sorrow. These stories upend expectations and prize enigma and the uncanny above all else. The Williams epiphany should be patented or bottledon the other hand it should also be regulated and maybe rationed because its severe. Its a rare feeling her stories trigger but its a keen and deep and welcome one the sort of feeling that wakes us up to complication and beauty and dissonance and fragility.
language: English
title: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
publisher: Soho Press