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More a Part of Dying Than Delight: Joy Williams’s “Traveling to Pridesup”

The fiction of Joy Williams has earned her praise and acclaim, but not necessarily fame. Brad Watson reintroduces an early gem and asks why. Williams has been likened to Flannery O’Connor, an apt comparison as far as it goes. But Williams is that rare spiritual writer who offers neither salvation nor redemption.