How High? That High

Diane Williams, "the godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), is back with a mind-bending new collection of tiny, brilliant stories

In restaurants and homes, near stone lions and toolboxes, stove tops and trucks, Diane Williams creates from everyday moments short stories of extraordinary brilliance and insight. Most often only a page or two in length, her fictions are masterworks that force the reader to see the world anew, delivering in slight packets of language strange and visionary insights into what it means to be human-what it means, moment by moment, to inhabit a body, to be assailed by thoughts and desires that one never fully understands. A writer who will "rewire your brain" (NPR), Diane Williams is one of the American masters of the short story. Her new collection is a container for the elliptical, the magisterial, the voluptuous, and the profane, and Williams is a writer who "can do more with two sentences than most writers can do with two hundred pages" (The London Review of Books).