Excitability collects the best of Diane Williams' bold, often hilarious stories of love, sex, death, and the family.

Diane Williams conjures up an edgy, jagged state of mind, a lurching consciousness in a culture of speed and amnesia. -- Matthew Stadler, New York Times Book Review Diane Williams reminds me a little of Jane Bowles, a little of Laura Riding. She is one of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt. -- Lydia Davis Williams is a practitioner of the new prose genre dubbed sudden fiction.... She is a master of sorts, who when she wants to, rises to a poetry of great, if telegraphic intensity. -- Eli Gottlieb, Elle

Williams is an attorney.