This is the thread where I teach you all how to handle Joy Williams

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First read Breaking & Entering. Then read Taking Care. Then read Escapes. Then read State Of Grace. Then read The Quick & The Dead. Then read her more experimental offering, The Changeling. Then read her collection of essays, Ill Nature. Then read her guidebook to the Florida Keys. Then hope for more from one of the great writers of the late 20th century and beyond. (I hear there is a new one coming out later this year.) (Then read her incomparable piece in Spin magazine on Wendy O. Williams. Surely one of the greatest examples of music writing in many a moon.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 June 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

About halfway through The Quick and the Dead right now.
Recommended by Mandee W.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

NOT ANOTHER THREAD ABOUT JOY WILLIAMS SHE NEEDS TO STOP POSTING THOSE IMAGES GOD WTF

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

JON WILLIAMS IS A THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN, BUT NOT OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN (BECAUSE WE WON'T BE LETTING OUR CHILDREN HAVE SEX)

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

is this thread about that jon williams character? everyone seem to be talking about him. is he some pop crooner that the kids are going nuts over these days?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that's alicia keyes.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, right! sorry, i just keep confusing them in my mind!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got really excited when I saw that someone had started a joy williams thread. and then it turns out that I started it!!! I have absolutely no memory of it at all. ain't booze grand?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

I endorse the opening post

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 22:48 (six years ago)

three years pass...

reading the story collection the visiting privilege. she is the goddamn greatest

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:41 (three years ago)

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