One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paleyโs writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words."A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, โcomes along and brightens language up again, takes it aside and gives it a pep talk, sends it back renewed, so it can do its job, which is ...Full description
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paleyโs writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words."A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, โcomes along and brightens language up again, takes it aside and gives it a pep talk, sends it back renewed, so it can do its job, which is to wake us up.โ Best known for her inimitable short stories, Grace Paley was also an enormously talented essayist and poet, as well as a fierce activist. She was a tireless member of the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the tenantsโ rights movement, the anti-nuclear-power movement, and the Womenโs Pentagon Action, among other causes, and proved herself to be a passionate citizen of each of her communitiesโNew York City and rural Vermont.