“The demands of living have consequences,” a haunted young mother says in Joy Williams’s 1978 novel, “The Changeling,” “and that is called fate.” The woman’s brother-in-law, a frightening man with ...

In her many celebrated novels and story collections, Joy Williams tends to confront—with mordant comedy and bluntness and often a kind of ambiguously mystical quality (befitting the child of a ...

Joy Williams’s West is a liminal space, untethered, grasslands floating among craggy mountains, biker bars and seedy motels and ghosts baked by harsh sunlight. The 12 stories in her hypnotic ...

specifically, the NAACP New York State Conference. L. Joy Williams just stepped into the role of president - a position that was once held by the legendary Dr. Hazel Dukes, who died earlier this year ...

Joy Williams, specialist in what should be called sorrowful hilarity, reads from her work Honored Guest (Knopf). Pretty soon we discover that what we would call a sacrificial victim, she calls an ...

L. Joy Williams has plans. Lots of plans. L. Joy Williams steps into big shoes as the new president of the NAACP New York State Conference. As she carries the legacy of the late Dr. Hazel Dukes, ...

The singular, disconcerting uneasiness that is so characteristic of Joy Williams’ fiction, yet so hard to pin down, is once again dazzlingly on display in her latest collection, “The Pelican Child.” ...