I Hear You're Rich [Paperback]

Diane Williams, “godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant stories.

In Williams’ stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally wild wit, Williams shows us how any moment of any day can open onto disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.Praise for I Hear You're Rich

A Vulture Best Book of 2023 (So Far)
A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2023
Southwest Review's 10 Must-Read Books of 2023

“Like looking into the deep, expressive eyes of a person . . . struggling against forces that are not always clear to them.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“You might call Diane Williams’s plots dreamlike — they proceed according to their own mysterious logic, interrupting themselves — but they’re not hazy . . . [Williams] turn[s] the everyday stuff of realist fiction into props for existential fun houses . . . I Hear You’re Rich will please fans of Lydia Davis and David Lynch.”
—Vulture

“Stories that offer glimpses into the mundane and exhilarating beauty of everyday life.”
—The Millions

“Guaranteed to shift the world around you, if onll“n