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. December 5th, 2008 / 8:57 pm Gian—

      So is Gordon Lish.

  2. December 5th, 2008 / 4:57 pm Gian—

      So is Gordon Lish.

  3. December 5th, 2008 / 9:00 pm 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. December 5th, 2008 / 5:00 pm 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. December 5th, 2008 / 9:03 pm Gian—

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

  6. December 5th, 2008 / 5:03 pm Gian—

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

  7. December 5th, 2008 / 9:10 pm barry—

      that cover is killer

  8. December 5th, 2008 / 5:10 pm barry—

      that cover is killer

  9. December 5th, 2008 / 9:21 pm 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. December 5th, 2008 / 5:21 pm 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. December 6th, 2008 / 3:00 am 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. December 5th, 2008 / 11:00 pm 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. December 6th, 2008 / 3:50 am Brandon Hobson—

      Take the class. Sign up immediately.

  14. December 5th, 2008 / 11:50 pm Brandon Hobson—

      Take the class. Sign up immediately.

  15. December 6th, 2008 / 4:39 am Anthony L.—

      She’s wonderful.

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

  16. December 6th, 2008 / 12:39 am Anthony L.—

      She’s wonderful.

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

  17. December 6th, 2008 / 7:16 am 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. December 6th, 2008 / 3:16 am 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. December 6th, 2008 / 4:18 pm Justin Taylor—

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

  20. December 6th, 2008 / 12:18 pm Justin Taylor—

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

  21. December 7th, 2008 / 12:09 am KevinS—

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

  22. December 6th, 2008 / 8:09 pm KevinS—

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

  23. December 7th, 2008 / 12:11 am Blake Butler—

      let the tyrant up dem gutz

  24. December 7th, 2008 / 12:11 am Blake Butler—

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

  25. December 6th, 2008 / 8:11 pm Blake Butler—

      let the tyrant up dem gutz

  26. December 6th, 2008 / 8:11 pm Blake Butler—

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

  27. December 7th, 2008 / 1:19 am Ryan Call—

      give it to tyrant

  28. December 6th, 2008 / 9:19 pm Ryan Call—

      give it to tyrant

  29. December 7th, 2008 / 6:31 am 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. December 7th, 2008 / 2:31 am 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. December 7th, 2008 / 5:58 pm Gian—

      The generosity at HTML is abundant

  32. December 7th, 2008 / 1:58 pm Gian—

      The generosity at HTML is abundant