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    <body><![CDATA[I've given it 5 stars because I'm completely bowled over by this woman's writing. Mind you I only understand about three quarters of it, I think. The disturbing sexuality, the breezy vignettes, the dark goings on... I'm hooked. Some of the writing is deliberately misleading, weird weird stuff and ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19630777">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just think her sentences are amazing and her own and she has a style, her own, and that's the mark of the real thing. Fascinating read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I consider a hot piece of literay eroticism. Maybe the hottest since the Marquis. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[sharp mini stories in snack form.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i've only read selections from this, but the stuff i've read is pretty fab. very dark short-shorts, many of which explore sex, adultery, violence, jealousy, etc. a few of these stories i've read a dozen times and still cannot trace how she gets from one place to another; amazing what she can do in 3...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10420952">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one opened my mind to the aesthetics of short fiction. I didn't feel that every piece was successful, but I admire the risks that Williams takes. I also get a perverse sense of satisfaction from her sick sense of humor.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fiction. &quot;Williams's miniatures cast long shadows, while offering unexpected meanings to the light which edges them&quot;--Bradford Morrow. In these &quot;miniatures,&quot; Williams takes the choicest bits of description, tense, and poetic language, and crafts of them a dense and multifaceted language: &quot;Thank goodness I am deeply sincere, so I stopped laughing. He had dragged me along to this refined filth of a hotel, which aroused my truest false feeling. On the way to the hotel, he was staggering and I was. If my wish is at last coming true, he is going to spring on me something that will make me feel as helpless as a human being&quot; (&quot;Speech&quot;).]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Diane is one of my heroes. Her short and mysterious stories always inspire me, even when I'm not exactly sure what the heck is going on. I like her better than Lydia Davis, another fine minimalist author.]]></body>
    
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