September 2021

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Joy Williams in LitHub



Anything a writer says about their work is outside the work, a stranger to it. It’s a different language. It’s almost the enemy of the work. Whatever transformational transmission of weird beauty and consolation the work might possess can be utterly destroyed by the writer talking about it on the side.

You should read this interview with Joy Williams (conducted by typewriter). Maybe you’ll like it! I did.