David Wesley Williams
@davidwwilliams.bsky.social
Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Latest novel COME AGAIN NO MORE (JackLeg Press) available here: https://www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/1024013/david-wesley-williams/come-again-no-more
"She did not answer for a time. The fireflies drifted; somewhere a dog barked, mellow, sad, faraway." -- from "Light in August" #southernlit #southerngothic #williamfaulkner #rowanoak
Bourbon and fireflies: Faulkner in August
My, my. A book does get around
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Thanks to the Daily Memphian for covering the literary news of the day! #readlocal #supportlocaljournalism #humanitiestennessee
The Daily Memphian@dailymemphian.bsky.social · last mo.An ice storm aftermath, the newspaper industry, small-town Helen of Troy circa 1993 and where climate crisis and motherhood intersect: Here are the four books that have Memphians up for a statewide award.
“I ain't good looking / but I take my time.” — Furry Lewis. (Photo: folk art guitar, Central BBQ, Memphis Tennessee.)
David Wesley Williams I have a new short story up at the journal Root Smoke. It's called "Take Time to Know Her," after a Percy Sledge song that was new at the time of the story's happenings. It's short, takes no time to read. I hope you'll do just that. #southernfiction #mississippi #southernlit
David Wesley Williams
flash fiction
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Today on Substack: "My characters always seem to wind up in the cemetery, but usually not for keeps. They’re just visiting." #mississippifredncdowell #blues #fiction #cemeteries
Cemetery saviors
The dead are better company, is all
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This week's Substack: Listening to Bessie Smith. #blues #bessiesmith open.substack.com/pub/davidwes...
Podcast alert: Talking about my newspaper novel, "Come Again No More," from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. #podcast #novel #literaryfiction
Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoAn occasional series in which writers speak for themselves. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/aut... @jacklegpress.bsky.social @davidwwilliams.bsky.social #booksky
A single guitar note was struck, somewhere far off, a song being written, some begotten ballad or reel. (This week on Substack) #collageart #satire #southernfiction
Begotten ballads at the end of the world
Drink up. Riff on. We’ll get through this somehow. Or not.
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REVIEW: "...it’s like being seated next to the best storyteller at the local pub." Thank you, Small Press Picks. #novels #fiction #newspapers
Beth Castrodale @bethcastrodale.bsky.social · 4mo agoCOME AGAIN NO MORE: In this witty, off-beat, and entertaining ride of a novel, a laid-off reporter considers what his next act in life might look like. Check out the Small Press Picks review at smallpresspicks.com/come-again-n.... @jacklegpress.bsky.social #bookreview #novels
PODCAST ALERT: Talking "Come Again No More," my newspaper novel, on WYPL's Book Talk, an offering from the Memphis library system. #novels #fiction #southernlit #podcasts #memphis #memphisauthors #newspapers
David Wesley Williams - Come Again No More | WYPL Book Talk
WYPL Programming Coordinator Andy Hunt hosts his first episode of Book Talk, and his guest is veteran journalist and novelist David Wesley Williams. David appeared on Book talk previously to discuss h...
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This week's Substack post, about finding Eudora Welty hanging out with the poets on Bill Clinton's bookshelf. #eudorawelty
Bill Clinton, Eudora Welty, and the poets
Serious daring at the presidential library
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@greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social visits Max and KoKo at the National Greyhound Hall of Fame in Abilene, Kansas. #greyhound
Hey, I have a new essay up at Chapter 16, the Humanities Tennessee literary site. It's about how writing is hard work and writers' offices are shrines to the struggle. #williamfaulkner #rowanoak #eudorawelty #writing
Writers at Work
I’ve visited the writing spaces of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and other literary heroes, but not because I think it will help my own writing. Tha…
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Coffee. Reading. Music. (Really, hiding out from the world.)
In this week's Substack, Jorge Luis Borges conjures the Father of Waters, with some help from Mark Twain. #mississippiriver #JorgeLuisBorges #MagicRealism #outlaws #museumofsouthernsentences davidwesleywilliams.substack.com/p/jorge-luis...
Jorge Luis Borges in the Museum of Southern Sentences
An honorary Southerner by way of Argentina conjures the Father of Waters, the Mississippi River
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New novel coming in 2027: 'The Coldwater Girl,' a Southern picaresque from Regal House! #southernlit #southernliterature #fiction #book #reading #regalhousepublishing
Regal House Publishing@regalhouse.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe're just delighted to have signed with David Wesley Williams to bring you his novel THE COLDWATER GIRL in the summer of 2027. Welcome, David, to #teamregalhouse! regalhousepublishing.com/david-wesley...
This week on 'South Bound,' my Substack, imagining some lost kin of Flem and then. It's a Snopes family reunion. #snopes #snopesism #williamfaulkner #southernlit #southernliterature #yoknapatawpha #yoknapatawphacounty
Snopes family reunion
Some lost kin of Flem and them
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Thrilled that my story "Southern Dogface" is a Pushcart nominee! #ponderreview #pushcartnominees #southernfiction #ivycoldwater
Ponder Review@ponderreview.bsky.social · 9mo agoCongratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees! Fiction David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1 Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1 CNF Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1 Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2 Poetry Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2 Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
A little haul from the antique mall. Five bucks each. The clerk asked if Willy and Mink DeVille were related.
My new novel, COME AGAIN NO MORE, is out today. From Chapter 16's review: "This book is melancholy, hysterical, and ultimately full of grace, a requiem played in twelve-bar blues." Order from the usual places, but consider my Memphis local, Burke's Book Store. (See link below.) 📚
Ink-Stained Elegy
In Come Again No More, David Wesley Williams resurrects the spirit of a dying newsroom with the lyrical gusto of a man both mourning and celebrating his first …
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Barb, aka @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social, off to her volunteer gig at the Memphis Public Library used-book store. #readbannedbooks
RIP to our fifth and final greyhound, the singular Hunter. #greyhound open.substack.com/pub/davidwes...
In this week's Substack, those old devil blues... #deltablues #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #skipjames #charleypatton #southernlit 📚
Me and the devil
For Robert Johnson and them
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A video for my forthcoming novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, available for preorder (signed copy! $18 paperback!) from Burke's Book Store in advance of Nov. 10 publication: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #southernfiction #books 📚 #newspapers #southernlit #burkesbookstore
Ah, ink: from COME AGAIN NO MORE (JackLeg Press), a novel by David Wesley Williams
YouTube video by David Wesley Williams
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