I Hear You're Rich - Paperback

by Diane Williams (Author)

Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant stories.

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.

Author Biography

Diane Williams is the author of eleven volumes of short fiction. The Collected Stories of Diane Williams--an omnibus of over three-hundred stories--appeared in 2018. Her most recent book of fiction, I Hear You're Rich, was published in 2023. She is the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes. She 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 lives in New York City.