It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature

“Diane Williams reminds me a little of Jane Bowles, a little of Laura Riding. She is one of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing

something independent, energetic, heartfelt.”

—Lydia Davis

"With the uproarious rudeness of a great mind, Diane Williams writes surprise after surprise, radically reinvented, indecorous and daring and downright funny

stories."

—Christine Schutt

“Diane Williams’s singular, unsettling genius has never been as memorably and heartrendingly evident as in this virtuosic new collection of richly gnomic

fictions that are, as always, sublimely vital in every line.”

—Gary Lutz

“Diane Williams is one of the true living heroes of the American avant-garde. Her fiction makes very familiar things very, very weird.”

—Jonathan Franzen

“These outrageous and ferociously strange stories test the limits of behavior, of manners, of language, and mark Diane Williams as a startlingly original writer

worthy of our closest attention.”

—Ben Marcus