• Remembering Robert Stone: Joy Williams

    "The Best and Hippest Writer in Key West."

    I had a brain crush on Robert Stone. He could (and did) write about anything—voodoo, war, drugs, navigation, theater, diving, faith, Jerusalem. He could set up a scene and make it sinister in a Corinthian’s twinkling of an eye. In conversation the most esoteric subject might come up and Bob would give a little sniff, tip his head back slightly, almost close his eyes and . . . begin . . . an incomparable, mesmerizing knowledgeable riff. His work was dangerous, even menacing, but he was a sweetheart. And of course the best and hippest writer in Key West.

     

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    Tom Jenks  ·  Edward Hower  ·  Kem Nunn  ·  Ed McClanahan  ·
    Elena Castedo  ·  Robert D. Richardson  ·  Hal Crowther  ·  Carol Edgarian

     


    Joy Williams
    Joy Williams
    Joy Williams is the author of four previous novels–including The Quick and the Dead, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize–and four collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming. Her novel Harrow is out now.





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