Joy Williams has been named the 2016 PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction honoree

By Tim Cheng | April 28 2016 | Humanities & Social Sciences

Joy Williams has been named the 2016 PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction honoree. Selection committee member Richard Ford writes: “Joy Williams’ short stories are, sentence to sentence, incandescent, witty, alarming, often hilarious while affecting seeming inadvertence (but not really) in their powerful access to our human condition. She is a stirring writer and has long been deserving of the Malamud Award.

The Visiting Privilege
The Visiting Privilege
New and Collected Stories
Joy Williams
9781101873717
The definitive collection of the legendary writer's stories, and her first in more than ten years.
$18.00 US
Aug 09, 2016
Paperback
512 Pages
Vintage
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