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Synopsis
Excitability collects the best of Diane Williamss bold, often hilarious, stories of love, sex, child-rearing, death, and space aliensstories that are (in the words of Bradford Morrow) wry, sensuous, spiritual, wise, raunchy, familial . . . alive to the contradictory nuances which define our lives.
With the speed of light, Williamss stories flash scenes that encompass entire lives, yet leave a myriad of possibilities open to the reader. When Diane Williams burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with This is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate, she received critical acclaim for forging her own innovative tradition. Williams followed this initial success with Some Sexual Success Stories and The Stupefaction, from which she has gained an ever-growing following of admirers.
Dallas News
Like Donald Barthelme and Franz Kafka, Williams at times is able to boil down the obtuse complexities of the body, the mind, the soul, etc., and fashion them into a compact cudgel with the power to flatten the receptive reader.