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    I Hear You’re Rich: stories
    I Hear You’re Rich: stories
    I Hear You’re Rich: stories
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    I Hear You’re Rich: stories

    By Diane Williams

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    ‘The writer who saved my life — or my soul.’ Merve Emre, The New Yorker

    ‘A true living hero of the American avant-garde.’ Jonathan Franzen

    ‘One of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt.’ Lydia Davis

    A new collection of stories from the ‘godmother of flash fiction’ (The Paris Review).

    In Williams' stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life.

    In perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally wild wit, Williams shows us how any moment of any day can open onto disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateAug 10, 2023
    ISBN9781761385308
    I Hear You’re Rich: stories
    Author

    Diane Williams

    Diane Williams is the founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual, NOON, the archive of which, as well as Williams’ personal literary archive, was acquired in 2014 by the Lilly Library. She is the author of eleven previous volumes of short fiction. She lives in New York City.

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      I Hear You’re Rich - Diane Williams

      I HEAR YOU’RE RICH

      Diane Williams is the founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual, NOON, the archive of which, as well as Williams’ personal literary archive, was acquired in 2014 by the Lilly Library. She is the author of eleven previous volumes of short fiction. She lives in New York City.

      Scribe Publications

      18–20 Edward St, Brunswick, Victoria 3056, Australia

      2 John Street, Clerkenwell, London WC1N 2ES, United Kingdom

      3754 Pleasant Ave, Suite 100, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55409, USA

      Published by Scribe 2023

      Published by arrangement with Soho Press, New York, with the assistance of Rights People, London

      Copyright © Diane Williams 2023

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publishers and the author of this book.

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

      The following stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine: One Woman and Five Men, I Fixed My Hair, Can This Be I?, Fling, and For Example, the Son.

      The following stories have appeared in London Review of Books: ‘Gladly!’, Seated Woman, Tassel Rue, To What Beautiful End?, Riviera, Mother of Nature, Chuck, Fredella, Catalpa, The Realist, and Zwhip-Zwhip.

      These stories first appeared, sometimes in a slightly different form, in BOMB: Picturesque in the Extreme; in Conjunctions: Tale of Passion; in Granta: Nancy’s Victory, I Hear You’re Rich; in INQUE: A Slew of Attractions; in N + 1: Each Person to Her Paradise, Take Your Dress Off, The Assignment of Fate; in The New Yorker: Live a Little; in Southwest Review: We Had a Lot of Fun Dancing, Tom’s Fine.

      978 1 915590 58 9 (paperback edition)

      978 1 761385 30 8 (ebook)

      Catalogue records for this book are available from the National Library of Australia and the British Library.

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      Rebecca Godfrey

      Yes, I know you pity me, and you want to take care of me and you’d like to be selfish in a way that you’ve never tried before—an unbending, melting way . . .

      —MAX BODENHEIM

      CONTENTS

      Oriel?

      The Tune

      Start Here

      A Slew of Attractions

      Keepsake

      To What Beautiful End?

      Zwhip-Zwhip

      Gladly!

      We Had a Lot of Fun Dancing

      Seated Woman

      For Example, the Son

      Live A Little

      Tale of Passion

      Fredella

      I Hear You’re Rich

      Take Your Dress Off

      Catalpa

      The Assignment of Fate

      Fling

      Tassel Rue

      Chuck

      One Woman and Five Men

      Each Person to Her Paradise

      Mother of Nature

      Can This Be I?

      Everything Is Wonder

      Riviera

      Picturesque in the Extreme

      Phoebe Moffat—the Early Years

      The Realist

      Tom’s Fine

      I Fixed My Hair

      Nancy’s Victory

      ORIEL?

      We were in the room where there is often a deep stream of daylight.

      And my husband’s mother had made sunshine cake for us, but since she did not like to walk—it hurt her legs—I was the one who carried the platter with the sumptuous cake to the table.

      But where best to look as I went forward? At the cake? Or at their faces? This task takes common sense and balance as do all my others.

      What to name our baby?—a sobriquet that means rich? Why not

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