Item: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
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The Collected Stories of Diane Williams

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Diane Williams publishing house: Soho Press 2019 - 9

The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over three hundred new and previously published short fictions—distilled works of “unsettling brilliance” (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of the American short story.

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