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Novelist Joy Williams
to read for Writing Program March 13 By Liam Otten Fiction writer Joy Williams -- whose most recent novel, The Quick and the Dead (2000), was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize -- will read from her work at 8 p.m. March 13 for The Writing Program Reading Series.
In addition, Williams will lead a colloquium on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. March 21. Both events are free and open to the public and take place in Hurst Lounge in Duncker Hall, Room 201. A book signing will follow the reading, and copies of Williams' works will be available for purchase. "Joy Williams is a fierce original, with just as much emphasis on the 'fierce' half," said Marshall Klimasewiski, assistant professor of English. "She's not an author one recommends lightly. But if you've sunk into a rut in your reading, if you're in need of a healthy disturbance, if the tepid sentiments and tap-water prose of some other contemporary fictions have offered no solace lately, well, she may be just what you're looking for. "And let's face it, you have to admire a writer who gets blurbs from both Raymond Carver ('Joy Williams is simply a wonder') and William Gass ('Joy Williams is now the best at her business') on the back of her books, not to mention Don DeLillo and Ann Beattie and Harold Brodkey -- that is, from writers as different as those are, and as rarely found on the back of anyone's books." The New York Times Book Review once noted that "Joy Williams has dogs the way John Irving has bears. In fact, she seems to judge her people largely on these two bases: whether or not they can make a better second marriage and whether they get along well with dogs. The criteria are probably sounder than most."
Williams' stories and essays appear frequently in such publications as Esquire, The Paris Review and The New Yorker. Her honors include the Academy-Institute Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Magazine Award for Fiction, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation, and the Strauss Living Award. Born in Chelmsford, Mass., in 1944, Williams earned a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1965 but worked for several years as a researcher and data analyst with the U.S. Navy marine laboratory in Siesta Key, Fla., before embarking on her own literary career. For more information on Williams' March 13 reading, call 935-7130. |
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