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"I’ve just re-read State of Grace by Joy Williams. Published in 1986, this novel kept me turning pages at high speed from the very first sentence: "There is no warning of daylight here.” This is the American novel at its height of biblical longing."

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Roadies - Season 1

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Chuck Palahniuk recommended Honored Guest in Books (curated)

Honored Guest

Joy Williams | 2020

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"Don’t let the praise by highbrow critics scare you away from this 2004 story collection. We’re so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than for another person, thus the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. No one does this better than Joy Williams."

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The New Mutants (2020)

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Five teenage mutants—Magik, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, and Mirage—come to grips with their...

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Alice Walker recommended Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace in Books (curated)

Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace

Angel Kyodo Williams | 2000 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Religion

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"Angel Kyodo Williams is a young black woman who is also an ordained Zen priest. In this remarkable book, she brings a hip and modern eye to the teachings of the Buddha. I was moved by her honesty and great patience in interpreting the dharma: her understanding of suffering and her willingness to aid in the universal effort toward the growth of compassion and joy."

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David Sedaris recommended Taking Care in Books (curated)

Taking Care

Joy Williams | 1985

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"Another strong stylist that I imitated for a while was a woman named Joy Williams who had a short story collection called Taking Care. She has such a singular voice. It hasn’t really changed over the years. I remember she was talking about a girl having a fantasy about her beau and she said, ‘He was feeling fine, and fancy too.’ It was such music to me."

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