Honored Guest (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joy Williams
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Wives, Mothers, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Women, Death or dying, Self-revelations
Honored Guest is Joy Williams's third short fiction collection. After the 1982 publication of her first, Taking Care, she was hailed as a master of the short-story form. Three of the stories in that collection—“Train,” “The Wedding,” and the title story—were chosen by her mentor in the Iowa Writers Workshop, R. V. Cassill, and her so-called minimalist colleagues, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolfe, and Richard Ford, for inclusion in four widely adopted short story anthologies used in colleges and universities across the country during the 1980's. Although Williams's...
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