Excitability: Selected Stories 1986-1996

by Diane Williams

Overview

"Excitability" collects the best of Diane Williams' bold, often hilarious stories of love, sex, death, and the family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564781970
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Series:	American Literature
Pages:	329
Product dimensions:	5.49(w) x 8.43(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Williams is an attorney.

What People are Saying About This

Lydia Davis

Diane Williams reminds me a little of Jane Bowles, a little of Laura Riding. She is one of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt.

Denis Donoghue

Williamss stories are as short as they could be, but their latitude of implication is remarkable. In them manifold pleasures of recognition, surmise, divination, accrue to us.

Editorial Reviews

"Diane Williams conjures up an edgy, jagged state of mind, a lurching consciousness in a culture of speed and amnesia." --Matthew Stadler,New York Times Book Review

Dalkey Archive Press

"Diane Williams reminds me a little of Jane Bowles, a little of Laura Riding. She is one of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt." --Lydia Davis

Dalkey Archive Press

"Williams is a practitioner of the new prose genre dubbed "sudden fiction."... She is a master of sorts, who when she wants to, rises to a poetry of great, if telegraphic intensity." --Eli Gottlieb,Elle

Dalkey Archive Press

From the Publisher

Williams is a practitioner of the new prose genre dubbed sudden fiction . . . . She is a master of sorts, who when she wants to, rises to a poetry of great, if telegraphic intensity.Elle 10-90

Eli Gottlieb

Diane Williams conjures up an edgy, jagged state of mind, a lurching consciousness in a culture of speed and amnesia.New York Times Book Review

Matthew Stadler

Like Donald Barthelme and Franz Kafka, Williams at times is able to boil down the obtuse complexities of the body, the mind, the soul, etc., and fashion them into a compact cudgel with the power to flatten the receptive reader.

Dallas News

Excitability is an apt precis of this . . .book's lightning-quick, innovative style. -- The New York Times Book Review

Gardner McFall