{"title":"Books by Diane Williams","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"vicky-swanky-is-a-beauty","title":"Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling stories?a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire?are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling?the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53391591440657,"sku":"9781938073038","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_ffcdc979-87b7-4d3f-9463-460985ae5e98.jpeg?v=1776866865"},{"product_id":"fine-fine-fine-fine-fine","title":"Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Elle · San Francisco Chronicle ·New Statesman · Frieze · The Irish Times · Vulture · 3:AM Magazine. Chosen by \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the most-anticipated books of 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called ?folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,” and these 40 new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot a single moment here is what you might expect. While there is immense pleasure to be found in Williams’s spot-on observations about how we behave in our highest and lowest moments, the heart of the drama beats in the language of American short fiction’s grand master, whose originality, precision, and power bring the familiar into startling and enchanted relief.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":53391595045137,"sku":"9781940450841","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_db3d6c29-0f18-46b3-8c16-3d8740f6b403.jpeg?v=1776866937"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.stablebookgroup.com\/collections\/books-by-diane-williams.oembed","provider":"Stable Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}