Diane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of eight books, including her selected stories published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1998. Her most recent book, "Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine," was published by McSweeney's in 2016. The Millions and Flavorwire listed it as one of the most anticipated books of 2016, and it received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Her book, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, was published by McSweeney's in January 2012. The Boston Globe said "Vicky Swanky' is Williams at her best, shaking us awake again to the persistent strangeness of human life." Vanity Fair wrote "The shorts in Diane Williams's Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty emit an unsettling brilliance, becoming, on repeated readings, even stranger and more revelatory." Ben Marcus says of this work: "The uncanny has met its ideal delivery system: the stories of Diane Williams." Her 2007 collection, It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, was released by Fiction Collective Two.
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