Joy Williams

Aug 13, 2024 | esquire.com | Joy Williams

This article originally appeared in the October 1990 issue of Esquire. It may contain attitudes and sensibilities about politics and hunting that are potentially triggering. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. Death and suffering are a big part of hunting. A big part. Not that you’d ever know it by hearing hunters talk. They tend to downplay the killing part. To kill is to put to death, extinguish, nullify, cancel, destroy.

Jul 16, 2024 | lithub.com | Joy Williams |Brad Watson

Brad was Brad Watson’s middle name. The name he was supposed to go by was Wilton. Wilton Watson. What a mouthful. What could such a name portend for a white Mississippian born in the summer of 1955? Well, anything could happen and some things even did. Article continues belowHe didn’t dream of becoming a writer, certainly. A presence on stage or screen perhaps. He was good-­looking, a bit roguish. He had charm, that Southern charm.

Jul 2, 2024 | bookshop.org | Joy Williams

(Author) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description Returning to her legendary short stories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams offers a much-anticipated follow-up to Ninety-Nine Stories of God, which The New York Times Book Review called a "treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces." Concerning the Future of Souls...

Apr 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Joy Williams |Kristin Hannah

Elegantly poetic—and often archly funny—meditations on death by a superb writer. The angel of death, Washoe the chimp, and T.S. Eliot share the stage in Williams’ enchanting collection of 99 short-short stories. “The older dog’s death”: This is one complete entry in Williams’ lyrical set of 99 stories about death, its number nicely echoing Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dante turns up, to be sure.

Apr 12, 2024 | bookforum.com | Joy Williams

Vladimir Sorokin's high-risk fiction Blue Lard By Vladimir Sorokin, Translated from Russian by Max Lawton. New York: New York Review Books Classics. 368 pages. $19. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon Red Pyramid: Selected Stories By Vladimir Sorokin, Translated from Russian by Max Lawton. New York: New York Review Books Classics. 320 pages. $19. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon VLADIMIR SOROKIN is genius, pure and simple. Or Daedalian.