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"Excitability" collects the best of Diane Williams's bold, often hilarious, stories of love, sex, child-rearing, death, and space aliens--stories that are (in the words of Bradford Morrow) "wry, sensuous, spiritual, wise, raunchy, familial... alive to the contradictory nuances which define our lives."

Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture life, love, and contradiction in a single page, Diane Williams continues to forge her own innovative tradition in this new collection. Including over three dozen short stories along with three novellas, Romancer Erector is her boldest collection to date. Here she once again astonishes us with her distinctive voice, detached yet fiercely intimate. As one critic writes: "the effect is original, as if a strange little memory has insinuated itself into the reader's own memory, to remain there...incapable of assimilation." Like intricately...

Seit den 1980er Jahren schreibt die New Yorker Autorin Diane Williams verstörende, ungenierte, feministische flash fiction. In extrem kurzen Stories richtet sie ihren unverwandten Blick auf Dinnerparty und Ehehölle, Shoppingtour und Psychoterror, Totenbett und Badezimmeridylle. Unmerklich aufgedrehte Alltagssituationen geraten zu grellen Schlüsselmomenten, trivial erscheinende Nebenbemerkungen zu monströsen Geständnissen - bis nach wenigen Worten alles wieder zurückkippt in die tobende Stille bis zur nächsten Story.

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This short course in public speaking will quickly give you, your workshop participants, or students you teach (high school, college, Adult Education), the basics of public speaking in 7 focused, 1 - 3 page lessons in a workbook format.

Each lesson can be completed in as little as 15 minutes, so that this flexible curriculum can be inserted in and adapted to a non-speech class as a public speaking segment. With suggested extension activities, and time for participants to give speeches, the material could easily be extended into a one-semester class.

This book is a work-text, in a big...