{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-of-diane-williams","title":"The Collected Stories of Diane Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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 form: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983738794037,"sku":"ByrdShop_1616959827","price":51.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781616959821.jpg?v=1770808533","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-stories-of-diane-williams","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}