Noon

by Diane Williams (Editor)

Augusta Gross Drawings Kim Chinquee Books Formation Slope A Slight Hole That Undid Itself Tabloid Deb Olin Unferth La Pena Jibade-Khalil Huffman A Paramour Deanna Dikeman Photographs Christine Schutt Only the Sun to Go By Tobias Schneebaum Drawings Yasmine Alwan When I My Friend Said Where the Sand Started He Couldn't Decide In the 99 Clancy Martin The Happiest When We Meet Upon the Other Side Michael C. Murray Mistflower Rahul Mehta Beauty The Cure Einar Norelius The 3 Singing Trolls (Translated by Lydia Davis from Swedish with illustrations by the author) NOON is a literary annual founded in 2000 by American author Diane Williams. The 10th Anniversary Edition launched March 2009. NOON publishes fiction and occasional essays. A full table of contents, including back issues, is available on the NOON website. The magazine has been described as a "beautifully-produced literary journal that features the strongest offbeat writing from a select group of literary stylists." In 2007, Deb Olin Unferth told Bookslut that NOON founder and editor Diane Williams "inspires excellence and demands discipline. More than an editor, she is an editor-artist." NOON stories have won numerous awards and prizes. Diane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of seven books, including her selected stories published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1998.

142 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Diane Williams is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON (est. 2000). She has published 8 books and taught at Bard College, Syracuse University and The Center for Fiction in New York City.

Her books have been reviewed in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review ("An operation worthy of a master spy, a double agent in the house of fiction") and The Los Angeles Times ("One of America's most exciting violators of habit is [Diane] Williams…the extremity that Williams depicts and the extremity of the depiction evoke something akin to the pity and fear that the great writers of antiquity considered central to literature. Her stories, by removing you from ordinary literary experience, place you more deeply in ordinary life. 'Isn't ordinary life strange?' they ask, and in so asking, they revivify and console”).

Jonathan Franzen describes her as "one of the true living heroes of the American avant-garde. Her fiction makes very familiar things very, very weird." Ben Marcus suggested that her "outrageous and ferociously strange stories test the limits of behavior, of manners, of language, and mark Diane Williams as a startlingly original writer worthy of our closest attention."