Joy Williams, one of the best fiction writers of her generation, has not enjoyed the broader audiences that have attended to (for example) Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, and Tim O’Brien. That said, she is recognized by…
In a dense patch of palmettos about ten yards off the nature trail, she lay still and stared up at the broad, blue April sky. A Gulf breeze swayed the high tufts of thin longleaf pines, rustled through the small…