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Diane Williams

Diane Williams is the author of eleven books of fiction, including I Hear You’re Rich, just out from Soho Press (USA) and Scribe (UK). She is also the founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual NOON. She lives in New York City.

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Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

I Hear You’re Rich

Diane Williams

“I hear you’re rich. Can you give me some of your money? I hear you’re rich. ”

Fiction by Diane Williams.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Nancy’s Victory

Diane Williams

‘She saw a small swatch of pink and supposed a sunset was out there and thought, What can that knockout pink do for me?’

New fiction by Diane Williams.

Fiction | Issue 156

Fiction | Issue 156

One Muggy Spring, Thanks, Dot and Secretly Try

Diane Williams

Three short stories by Diane Williams.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Più Vivo

Diane Williams

‘You’ve seen I’m sure a performer on stage stock-still – during which time he waits for his ovation. This is how I am these days.’

New fiction from Diane Williams.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Tale of Human Adventure

Diane Williams

‘The whole experience of writing this was enjoyable, as is the entire seriousness with which I take myself.’ New fiction by Diane Williams

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Grief in Moderation

Diane Williams

‘The tiny daisies were scored by the shadows of the slats of the venetian blinds and the stripes were shivering.’ Diane Williams.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Day of Awe

Diane Williams

New short fiction from Diane Williams' Collected Stories. ‘I fear I lack deep feelings, have flighty ideas, and am often irritable over trifles.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

The Fucking Lake

Diane Williams

New short fiction from Diane Williams. ‘The major events of my life are done with, except, of course, for my final downfall.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Best Book of 1921: The Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson

Diane Williams

‘Oh, how I love it!’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Witchcraft Today

Diane Williams

‘Two women appeared embracing two of a kind – that is each woman held onto a globular lamp base that had luster.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

The Beauty and the Bat

Diane Williams

‘I knew who she was well enough, by then – a competent woman in earnest who didn’t like me.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Specialist

Diane Williams

‘An hour passed. Why not say twenty years?’