The collected stories of Diane Williams

Author

Diane Williams

Call Number

• FICTION WILL (CEN)

Publication Information

New York, NY : Soho, [2018]

Physical Description

xvi, 764 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over three hundred new and previously published short fictions--distilled works that have rewritten the rules of the American short story"--

Contents

• This is about the body, the mind, the soul, the world, time, and fate (1990) : Lady
• The nature of the miracle
• Orgasms
• Killer
• All American
• The uncanny
• Claudette's head
• The kind you know forever
• The hero
• Ten feet from it
• Dropping the masters
• There should be nothing remarkable
• Baby
• Cloud
• Forty thousand dollars
• Pornography
• Here's another ending
• My female honor is of a type
• Glass of fashion
• Passage of the soul
• Original belief
• The spoils
• Intercourse
• Screaming
• Hope
• The divine right
• Power
• What is it when God speaks?
• To die
• A contribution to the theory of sex
• Marriage and the family
• Oh, my God, the rapture!
• The future of the illusion
• Boys!
• Ultimate object
• Again
• Lifeguard
• The nub
• Mystery of the universe
• Egg
• What we were there for
• Science and sin or love and understanding.

• Some sexual success stories plus other stories in which God might choose to appear (1992) : The limits of the world
• My highest mental achievement
• Clean
• The good man
• Pussy
• Turning
• The dog
• The man
• The circumcision
• All new
• The real Diane Williams has captured the whole of Freud
• The flesh
• Peniel
• Spanish
• A field that can never be exhausted
• They were naked again
• The meaning of life
• The big parade
• The hag was transformed by love
• Jewishness
• The mistake
• Clunk
• Characterize
• Icky
• Ore
• The care of myself
• Crush
• A progress in spirituality
• The band-aid and the piece of gum
• This one's about (_____)
• Torah
• An imperishable romance
• Nude
• Jeweling
• Naaa
• The fullness of life is from something
• Sex solves problems
• Seraphim
• No, cup
• My radiant girl
• Cannibal, the natural history
• Bloom
• Meat
• The strangest and most powerful
• The seduction
• Ha
• The revision
• The earth is full of her glory
• The time of harmony, or crudité
• Beyond principle
• Scratching the head
• Idea
• It becomes true
• Going wild
• Coronation
• Happy
• The case of the cold murderer
• Machinery
• Perfect.

• The stupefaction (1996) : An opening chat
• A shrewd and cunning authority
• The everlasting sippers
• The power of performance
• The blessing
• Eero
• The idealist
• A moment of panic
• The revenge
• O rock!
• The guider of the prick
• Excitability
• Speech
• For Diane
• Plural
• Gods of the earth at home
• Desperately trying to lie down
• I am a learned person
• Careful
• The fuck
• The goal
• My reaction to life
• The dirty necklace
• The helpmeet
• The masturbator
• Okeydoke
• The fuss
• Thank you
• The purpose
• The primary intuition
• The festival
• The builder
• The answer to the question
• Their privileges
• The suitor
• The strong petals of quiet
• The stupefaction (a novella).

• Romancer erector (2001) : Nancy weak
• Very, very red
• Upright pearl
• Ecstasy or passion
• Her hair is red
• Madder Lake
• They were now at the top
• D. Beech and J. Beech
• Actual people whose behavior
• I was able to observe
• The idea of counting
• The duller legend
• The source of authority
• There are so many smart people walking around
• It can take years to remain
• Ruling
• Spoon
• A cautionary tale
• It is possible to imagine a more perfect thing
• Pricker
• Dear ears, mouth, eyes, and hindquarters
• Fifty years of quality
• The description of the worlds
• Bill
• Red rose
• My coat
• Tony
• An inventory
• I freshly fleshly
• Great deed
• Tureen
• Wrong hell
• The underwear
• The penis had been plenty decent
• The brilliants
• Yellower
• Large organization
• Cake
• Arm
• Row of us surrounded by seven slightly smaller ones
• A woman's fate
• Romancer erector (a novella).

• It was like my trying to have a tender-hearted nature (2007) : On sexual strength (a novella)
• The glam bird
• What a great man learned about
• Reflection and emotion
• Sweet
• The ring stuck on
• I was very hungry!
• A dramatic classic leap
• A thousand groans
• I hope you will be more tip-top
• Well, well, well, well, well
• Everybody's syrup
• The easiest way of having
• The life of any cook
• Rice
• Stronger than a man, simpler than a woman
• These blenches gave my heart
• The lesser passage room
• The facts about telling character
• Flower
• Doodia
• Handy-dandy
• Aggressive glass and mirrors
• Time-consuming striking combinations
• Both my wife and I were very well satisfied
• She began
• Baby flourishes
• Opening the closing mouth of the woman
• The king emperor
• Please let me out again of the small plugged hole
• The Philadelphia story
• Eat the deep too!
• Cutting and dressing
• Dangeresque
• Jewish folktale
• To squeeze water
• Jessamine, Ewing, Erastus, and Keane
• Her leg
• Inspiring one
• The widow and the hamburger
• Satisfying, exciting, superb
• Affection
• Other rash.

• Vicky Swanky is a beauty (2012) : My defects
• If told correctly it will center on me
• Pedestal
• Death bed
• Glee
• My first real home
• On the job
• The use of fetishes
• Woman in rose dress
• Weight, hair length
• Cockeyed
• Highlights of the twilight
• The newly made supper
• Ponytail
• Chicken winchell
• The emporium
• Protection, prevention, gazing, gratified desire
• Vicky Swanky was a beauty
• Carnegie nail
• Stand
• Common body
• Human being
• Rude
• Mrs. Keable's brothers
• Arm under the soil
• Being stared at
• Expectant motherhood
• Comfort
• The strength
• This has to be the best
• A man, an animal
• Shelter
• Enormously pleased
• Hello! Hi! Hello!
• As the world turned out
• Lord of the face.

• Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine (2016) : Beauty, love, and vanity itself
• A gray pottery head
• Gulls
• To revive a person is no slight thing
• Head of a naked girl
• Rhapsody breeze
• Lavatory
• The romantic life
• The great passion and its context
• Specialist
• The poet
• At a period of exceptional dullness
• Head of the big man
• Living deluxe
• Personal details
• How blown up
• Sigh
• There is always a hesitation before turning in a finished job
• The mermaid pose
• Greed
• The skol
• The thickening wish
• Lamb chops, cod
• Of the true and final good
• Girl with a pencil
• Perform small tasks
• Removal men
• A mere flask poured out
• Bang bang on the stair
• A little bottle to tears
• When I was old and ugly
• Palm against palm.

• New stories: The beauty and the bat
• Witchcraft today
• The forgotten story
• Don't talk to him for such a long time
• Oh, darling I'm in the garden
• Happy presence, timeless inspiration
• The sure cure
• The perverted message
• Grace God
• The fucking lake
• A pot over a very low heat
• The hours of coincidence
• The standard
• The important transport
• Day of awe
• The wilder people have wilder Gods.