Beautiful Days
Stories
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024
One of The New Yorker's Best Books We've Read in 2024
"A bright new voice in fiction…A genuine young talent, one who deftly palpates the dark areas of human psyches…we might be staring before long at [the] 'Selected Stories of Zach Williams.'" —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review
From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor Zach Williams comes a striking and savage debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life’s broken promises.
A couple awakens in a home in the woods to find themselves rapidly aging as their toddler remains unchanged. A work-worn employee navigates conspiracy theories and the threat of violence in an abandoned office. A…
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May 13, 2025
ZACH WILLIAMS is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. His story "Trial Run" was one of three that won The Paris Review a 2023 ASME Award for Fiction. Originally from Wilmington, Delaware, he currently resides with his family in San Francisco.
