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Joy Williams

Joy Williams is the author of eleven books, including the novel State of Grace, a finalist for the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction, The Quick and the Dead, shortlisted for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the book of essays, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Fiction | Issue 28 padlock
Fiction | Issue 28 padlock

The Little Winter

Joy Williams

‘She remembered being happy off and on that day, and then looking at things and finding it all unkind.’

Fiction | Issue 142
Fiction | Issue 142

Web

Joy Williams

‘She was Some Pig. Her eggs easily incorporated the human genetic code. All her piglets were star patents.’

Fiction | Issue 126 padlock
Fiction | Issue 126 padlock

Dangerous

Joy Williams

‘Grief knows how to love them because we don’t know how to do it any more.’

Fiction | Issue 126 padlock
Fiction | Issue 126 padlock

Brass

Joy Williams

‘You’re the low-hanging fruit.’

Fiction | Issue 67 padlock
Fiction | Issue 67 padlock

Hawk

Joy Williams

‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 67 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 67 padlock

The Case Against Babies

Joy Williams

‘Babies, babies, babies. There’s a plague of babies.’

Fiction | Issue 19
Fiction | Issue 19

Escapes

Joy Williams

‘We went directly out of the theatre and into the streets, my mother weeping on the little usher's arm.’

Fiction by Joy Williams.

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