I Hear You're Rich: Stories

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Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant stories. In Williams' 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 bombastic wit, Williams shows us how any moment of any day can open onto disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.

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Praise for Diane Williams

I would describe Williams as the writer who saved my lifeor my soul, if one believes such a thing exists . . . [Williams]stories, many no longer than a page, suggest that what is left unsaid between people remains more powerful than what they have the capacity to articulate. Although Williams studied with Gordon Lish (and before that, with Philip Roth), her minimalism is distinctive for its sublimity and its spirituality, its ability to evoke the laws of a world apart.
Merve Emre, The New Yorker

Williams can do more with two sentences than most writers can do with two hundred pages.
The New York Review of Books

Full of funny, libidinal and invigorating enigmas . . .Readers who love the arresting phrase, the surprising word, will gravitate to her . . . Itsperfect to leave on the bedside table, to be consulted before ones dreamlife begins.
The London Review of Books

This book will rewire your brain.
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour

"Not a single moment of the prose, here, is what youexpect, and even the ordinary is, in the context created by Diane Williams, no longer ordinary: it is fresh, happy and peculiaror is it we who are refreshed, happy and more peculiar than before after reading her"
Lydia Davis

Author Bio

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.