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Diane Williams



Diane Williams is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON (est. 2000). She has published 8 books and taught at Bard College, Syracuse University and The Center for Fiction in New York City.

Her books have been reviewed in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review ("An operation worthy of a master spy, a double agent in the house of fiction") and The Los Angeles Times ("One of America's most exciting violators of habit is [Diane] Williams…the extremity that Williams depicts and the extremity of the depiction evoke something akin to the pity and fear that the great writers of antiquity considered central to literature. Her stories, by ...more

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Average rating: 3.37 · 3,026 ratings · 608 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine
2.79 avg rating — 848 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions
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Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
3.21 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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The Collected Stories of Di...
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I Hear You're Rich
2.61 avg rating — 251 ratings — 5 editions
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Excitability
4.18 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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How High? — That High
2.81 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions
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Romancer Erector
4.03 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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It Was Like My Trying to Ha...
4.30 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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This Is About the Body, the...
4.06 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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Some Sexual Success Stories...
3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1992
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“I should look like someone I would want to see.”
― Diane Williams, Romancer Erector
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“It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over.

"Scratching The Head”
― Diane Williams, Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear
tags: accident, life-wealth, nature
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“And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart.

"Cloud”
― Diane Williams
tags: effect, existence
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