“The Way We Thought We Would Be Interested”

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For the New Yorker, James Wood praises Joy Williams’s oblique precision:

In Williams’s world, we are all wandering interlopers—adrift, trapped, groundless—looking for visitors’ privileges.

Roxie Pell is a student at Wesleyan University, where she writes for Wesleying and The Argus and tweets hilarious nuggets of pure wisdom @jonathnfranzen. More from this author →