An incomplete list: Joy Williams, Stuart Dybek, Anne Carson, Alice Munro, Mary Gaitskill, Lydia Davis, Bhanu Kapil, Deborah Eisenberg, Edward P.

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Just a very few on a long list would be George Saunders, Kelly Link, Joy Williams, Ben Marcus, Jim Shepard, and whole cemeteries of the well-over-forty deceased ones.

NEWYORKER: Karen Russell

This fall, Williams joined chef Tom Colicchio and actress Joy Bryant as a host on Reserve Channel.

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Her sister, Joy (the terrific Scottish actress Shirley Henderson) has left her husband, Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams) because of his problematic sexual proclivities and is visited in her dreams by a dead boyfriend (Paul Reubens), who still wants her back.

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