The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

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Many of the stories included here were previously published in the following works:

“The Excursion,” “The Farm,” “The Lover,” “Preparation for a Collie,” “Shepherd,” “Shorelines,” “Summer,” “Taking Care,” “Train,” “The Wedding,” “Winter Chemistry,” and “The Yard Boy” from Taking Care by Joy Williams, copyright © 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982 by Joy Williams (Random House, New York). Reprinted by permission.

“The Blue Men,” “Bromeliads,” “Escapes,” “Health,” “The Last Generation,” “The Little Winter,” “Lu-Lu,” “Rot,” and “The Skater” from Escapes by Joy Williams, copyright © 1990 by Joy Williams (originally The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, subsequently Vintage Books, New York).

“ACK,” “Anodyne,” “Charity,” “Congress,” “Fortune,” “Hammer,” “Honored Guest,” “Marabou,” “The Other Week,” “Substance,” and “The Visiting Privilege” from Honored Guest: Stories by Joy Williams, copyright © 2004 by Joy Williams (Alfred A. Knopf, New York). All rights reserved. Adapted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Several of the stories initially collected here were previously published in the following journals:

Granta: “Brass” (Autumn 2011) and “Dangerous” (Winter 2014)

Idaho Review: “The Girls” (2004) and “Revenant” (2014)

Little Star: “The Mission” (January 2014)

No Tokens: “The Mother Cell” (February 2014)

Ploughshares: “Craving” (August 1991)

Prairie Schooner: “Another Season” (Summer 1966)

Tin House: “The Country” (Spring 2014)

Vice: “The Bridgetender” (Summer 2015)