Diane Williams on the Short Story
The LRB Podcast
London Review of Books
4.4 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you enjoy listening to the LRB podcast, then you'll probably enjoy reading the LRB. |
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| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome to the London Review of Books podcast. My name is Thomas Jones. This week, |
| 0:35.0 | my guest is Diane Williams, who will be reading her two most recent stories from the paper, |
| 0:37.9 | as well as talking a bit about them and her other work. |
| 0:44.1 | Reviewing her collected stories in the LRB in 2019, none of them more than four pages long, |
| 0:49.8 | Angie Malinko said that Diane Williams' fiction is full of funny, libidinal, and invigorating enigmas, |
| 0:55.7 | and pays attention to language at its most fine-grained. Hello, Diane, and thank you very much for joining me. Hello, I'm really happy to be here. I thought we could maybe listen to you reading |
| 1:01.0 | Gladly first, and then we could have our conversation as a kind of intermission, as it were, and then finish by |
| 1:07.4 | listening to Harriet it mounts. |
| 1:12.7 | Gladly. |
| 1:18.0 | He is a figure I once engaged with for years, |
| 1:23.4 | amid scenes with nearly religious significance attached to them. |
| 1:32.2 | And by chance, this Saturday I had witnessed him stepping away from a park path and stooping beneath the leaf cover only to put his hand against the tree trunk he smiled when he saw me but when |
| 1:40.1 | I reached him he was speechless and sour and then he proceeded on his way headlong. |
| 1:48.1 | If only he had said, you come with me. |
| 1:52.1 | I fell back, stood at a distance. |
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