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In , to celebrate her papers as well as her new novel Harrow, Washington University Libraries installed the "Joy Williams: Honored Guest" exhibition in the Ginkgo Room of Olin Library, is co-hosting with the Washington University English Department a reading and conversation with Joy in Graham Chapel. This digital exhibit is a companion to the onsite exhibit and to that exciting event.  · Honored Guest is Joy Williams's third short fiction collection. After the publication of her first, Taking Care, she was hailed as a master of the short-story form. Honored Guest: Stories. Williams, Joy. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN

With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways—comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. In short stories "so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race" (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she. "To live was like being an honored guest," muses a teenage girl whose mother is dying. While death, loss and the likelihood of losing touch with reality are the focus of these 12 short stor. Honored Guest Stories Joy Williams Alfred A. Knopf: pp., $

A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. From one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Guest is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation. more. In , to celebrate her papers as well as her new novel Harrow, Washington University Libraries installed the "Joy Williams: Honored Guest" exhibition in the Ginkgo Room of Olin Library, is co-hosting with the Washington University English Department a reading and conversation with Joy in Graham Chapel. This digital exhibit is a companion to the onsite exhibit and to that exciting event. The September publication of Harrow, her first novel in 21 years, presents the perfect time to recognize Joy Williams as our honored guest. In addition to this exhibition, the Libraries are hosting an event with Williams which will be presented online along with the exhibition’s digital version explorable here – Digital Exhibition of Joy Williams: Honored Guest.