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fearless, abyss-embracing literary projects our literature has seen [with]
the sort of helpless laughter that erupts when a profound moral project is
conducted with such blinding literary craft.” If you have yet to read
Williams’s work, there is no better place to start than this book, which
collects stories from across her decades of ground-breaking work
alongside several new stories.

The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
It would be enough to call Lispector an original, whose authority is
embedded in her abiding strangeness. It’s a strangeness instantly
recognizable for anyone who has thoughts rolling around in their head,
that they didn’t prompt, and can’t quite account for. That’s the proof of
Lispector’s greatness. She crafted stories out of what people can’t get
used to, being born for no reason they know, inside a universe whose
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