David Wesley Williams
@davidwwilliams.bsky.social
Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Novels COME AGAIN NO MORE (2025) and EVERYBODY KNOWS (2023), both JackLeg Press. Stories in Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Fan of greyhounds, bourbon, coffee, jazz, typewriters.
Happy Thanksgiving from Memphis.
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from Memphis.
A little haul from the antique mall. Five bucks each. The clerk asked if Willy and Mink DeVille were related.
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A little haul from the antique mall. Five bucks each. The clerk asked if Willy and Mink DeVille were related.
Barb, aka @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social, off to her volunteer gig at the Memphis Public Library used-book store. #readbannedbooks
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Barb, aka @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social, off to her volunteer gig at the Memphis Public Library used-book store. #readbannedbooks
8th best album of 1978. #pereubu #themoderndance
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
8th best album of 1978. #pereubu #themoderndance
RIP to our fifth and final greyhound, the singular Hunter. #greyhound
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September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
RIP to our fifth and final greyhound, the singular Hunter. #greyhound
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Hunter says good night, all. #greyhound
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hunter says good night, all. #greyhound
Good dog, mostly. Interesting, always. #greyhound
August 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Good dog, mostly. Interesting, always. #greyhound
Hunter the greyhound in his weird glory. #greyhound
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hunter the greyhound in his weird glory. #greyhound
Still life with napping greyhound and snack dish. #greyhound
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Still life with napping greyhound and snack dish. #greyhound
Catfish vs. greyhound. Catfish by a whisker or greyhound by a nose? It's the greyhound! #newsport #greyhoundsmakegreatracers #greyhound
July 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Catfish vs. greyhound. Catfish by a whisker or greyhound by a nose? It's the greyhound! #newsport #greyhoundsmakegreatracers #greyhound
My copies of COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, have arrived. You can preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. bookshop.org/p/books/come... #preordernovel #southernlit #📚
July 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My copies of COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, have arrived. You can preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. bookshop.org/p/books/come... #preordernovel #southernlit #📚
"Some Girls," orange vinyl from Holland, 1978.
July 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Some Girls," orange vinyl from Holland, 1978.
Now reading: "The Hangman's Children," Donald Hays. A comic novel of American tumult, set in 1968, that has something to say about these times, too. #donaldhays
July 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Now reading: "The Hangman's Children," Donald Hays. A comic novel of American tumult, set in 1968, that has something to say about these times, too. #donaldhays
Current favorite album. Also, best cover. #sggoodman #plantingbythesigns #snappingturtle #kentucky #albumoftheyear2025 #vinyl
July 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Current favorite album. Also, best cover. #sggoodman #plantingbythesigns #snappingturtle #kentucky #albumoftheyear2025 #vinyl
COME AGAIN NO MORE, my new novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, is available for preorder at the usual places. Let me recommend Memphis’s Burke's Book Store for a signed copy in advance of the Nov. 10 pub date: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/...
#fiction #jacklegpress #newspapers #preordernovel 📚
#fiction #jacklegpress #newspapers #preordernovel 📚
July 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
COME AGAIN NO MORE, my new novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, is available for preorder at the usual places. Let me recommend Memphis’s Burke's Book Store for a signed copy in advance of the Nov. 10 pub date: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/...
#fiction #jacklegpress #newspapers #preordernovel 📚
#fiction #jacklegpress #newspapers #preordernovel 📚
The front porch sessions. Re-reading "The Orchard Keeper." #cormacmccarthy #southernlit #southernfiction
May 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The front porch sessions. Re-reading "The Orchard Keeper." #cormacmccarthy #southernlit #southernfiction
"It's gonna be a long Monday / Stuck like the tick of a clock that's come unwound again and again." -- John Prine. #greyhound
May 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"It's gonna be a long Monday / Stuck like the tick of a clock that's come unwound again and again." -- John Prine. #greyhound
April 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
