December 5th, 2008 / 4:53 pm
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DATELINE, NYC: Diane Williams to offer private fiction workshop through Mercantile Library Center for Fiction

awesome awesome sexy awesome awesome

awesome awesome awesome sexy awesome

[this post is just a press release, but it’s an important one. also, hat tip to Shya Scanlon.]
FOR THE WRITER WITH THE COURAGE TO PRODUCE HIS OR HER OWN MOST VEHEMENT VOICE.
 
The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction is pleased to offer a new writing workshop with author, Diane Williams this January and February. Fine-grained attention to the drama of the sentence is offered as well as to the drama of the whole text. First look to NOON or to Williams’s own fiction to consider if you share the aesthetic values represented.
 
Diane Williams’s most recent book is IT WAS LIKE MY TRYING TO HAVE A TENDER-HEARTED NATURE. She is the editor of the acclaimed literary annual NOON which she founded in 2000. She was co-editor of StoryQuarterly for twelve years. She is considered the foremost advocate of the genre dubbed flash fiction and has been called by Jonathan Franzen “…one of the true living heroes of the American avant-garde.” Winner of two Pushcart Prizes, she has taught creative writing at both Bard College and Syracuse University and has been an invited reader at colleges and universities nationwide.
 
8 sessions
Tuesdays: January 6 through February 24
6:30pm-8:30pm
Fee is $500.00 (Special financial needs considered.)
  
To sign-up please e-mail info@mercantilelibrary.org or call 212.755.6710 

www.mercantilelibrary.org

Some freelancer for Time Out New York thought Diane’s last book was awesome sexy awesome. 

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32 Comments

  1. Gian

      So is Gordon Lish.

  2. Gian

      So is Gordon Lish.

  3. Justin Taylor

      I know. I heard about his first, actually, and have been in touch with the library. I’m dying to take it- but they haven’t announced any details or opened the sign-up yet.

  4. Justin Taylor

      I know. I heard about his first, actually, and have been in touch with the library. I’m dying to take it- but they haven’t announced any details or opened the sign-up yet.

  5. Gian

      Don’t think it’s been officially announced but I heard from a good source.

  6. Gian

      Don’t think it’s been officially announced but I heard from a good source.

  7. barry

      that cover is killer

  8. barry

      that cover is killer

  9. Justin Taylor

      yes, Gian, we are talking about the same thing–same source, I mean. I’m really really excited for it, whenever it does come.

      yes, Barry, that cover is killer.

  10. Justin Taylor

      yes, Gian, we are talking about the same thing–same source, I mean. I’m really really excited for it, whenever it does come.

      yes, Barry, that cover is killer.

  11. KevinS

      A class with Diane would awesome. Her last book is killer.
      If you take the one with Gordon Lish, don’t expect to actually write. You’ll mostly just listen… and listen… and listen…
      Also–for anyone interested, I have about 4,000 words of a Diane Williams interview that the Believer didn’t use (they published less than 600 words of my interview). I hope to publish the rest somewhere after the holidays.

  12. KevinS

      A class with Diane would awesome. Her last book is killer.
      If you take the one with Gordon Lish, don’t expect to actually write. You’ll mostly just listen… and listen… and listen…
      Also–for anyone interested, I have about 4,000 words of a Diane Williams interview that the Believer didn’t use (they published less than 600 words of my interview). I hope to publish the rest somewhere after the holidays.

  13. Brandon Hobson

      Take the class. Sign up immediately.

  14. Brandon Hobson

      Take the class. Sign up immediately.

  15. Anthony L.

      She’s wonderful.

      I read that Believer Interview–what they published was great. Now disappointed that they did not publish more.

  16. Anthony L.

      She’s wonderful.

      I read that Believer Interview–what they published was great. Now disappointed that they did not publish more.

  17. Blake Butler

      i wish.

      kevin, we could run it here if you don’t have other places in mind, drop me a line if you like, i wanted more of that interview too

  18. Blake Butler

      i wish.

      kevin, we could run it here if you don’t have other places in mind, drop me a line if you like, i wanted more of that interview too

  19. Justin Taylor

      Yeak, Kevin! We’d love it. MASSIVE PEOPLE.

  20. Justin Taylor

      Yeak, Kevin! We’d love it. MASSIVE PEOPLE.

  21. KevinS

      New York Tyrant and two other web sites have asked to see it. Shall I start a bidding war?

  22. KevinS

      New York Tyrant and two other web sites have asked to see it. Shall I start a bidding war?

  23. Blake Butler

      let the tyrant up dem gutz

  24. Blake Butler

      or publish one diane williams sentence in each location across all media

  25. Blake Butler

      let the tyrant up dem gutz

  26. Blake Butler

      or publish one diane williams sentence in each location across all media

  27. Ryan Call

      give it to tyrant

  28. Ryan Call

      give it to tyrant

  29. Frank Smythe

      Can we just lay off ever’buddy at all the New York houses now, and replace all their books with Diane Williams, Christine Schutt, and Lydia Davis?

  30. Frank Smythe

      Can we just lay off ever’buddy at all the New York houses now, and replace all their books with Diane Williams, Christine Schutt, and Lydia Davis?

  31. Gian

      The generosity at HTML is abundant

  32. Gian

      The generosity at HTML is abundant