The stories of Joy Williams. Joy Williams, author of four novels and as many story collections, was introduced at a Tin House writers' conference thusly: "If Joy pulled up in a car with two dead ...
The stories of Joy Williams. Williams’ cabinet of misfits is often compared to Flannery O’Connor’s, and justly so. The comparison with O’Connor goes further, too, as both authors entertain fertile ...
At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive. By Alexandra Jacobs Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York ...
In her many celebrated novels and story collections, Joy Williams tends to confront—with mordant comedy and bluntness and often a kind of ambiguously mystical quality (befitting the child of a ...