{"product_id":"i-liked-rex-paperback","title":"I Liked Rex - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMerve Emre\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"the godmother of flash fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e), a new collection of thirty-six cunning, captivating short stories about the mysteries of life and the human heart. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of America's most exciting violators of habit.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fiction ought to lead us to those precipices where language fails and silence begins. You would be well advised, with a master like Williams, to take the plunge.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiane Williams is one of the great masters of the American short story: her tiny, coruscating tales are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature. \u003ci\u003eI Liked Rex\u003c\/i\u003e explores sex, love, marriage, and all that comes after; it is a book about living, but more importantly, about how to be alive. Williams's genius lies as much in what is left unspoken as in what is laid out on the page; behind images of startling beauty and strangeness, entire chamber dramas of the heart unfold, and the pleasure of these sphinxlike tales comes from their unremitting mystery, which is the same mystery fundamental to life and to love. A collection of rare originality and daring, \u003ci\u003eI Liked Rex\u003c\/i\u003e is a complete and utter delight.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several collections of short fiction and the founder and editor of the literary annual \u003ci\u003eNOON\u003c\/i\u003e. An omnibus of her work, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories of Diane Williams\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2018.\u003ci\u003e I Liked Rex\u003c\/i\u003e is her twelfth book of fiction. The \u003ci\u003eNOON\u003c\/i\u003e archive, as well as Williams's personal literary archive, was acquired in 2014 by the Lilly Library. She lives in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerve Emre\u003c\/b\u003e is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include \u003ci\u003eParaliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Ferrante Letters. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741466505437,"sku":"9798896230816","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/R_pkhyxR7s9798896230816.webp?v=1789883465","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/i-liked-rex-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}