I Liked Rex

Diane Williams is one of the most consistently compelling and original writers of short fiction working today. The thirty-six new stories in I Liked Rex are essentially mystical, showing the potential for revelation in everyday subject matters - desire, money, family or work. Williams has an extraordinary ear for the rhythms of speech, and an unerring instinct for the crucial detail, the startling turn that allows her to unfold the life of a character, or the history