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The Collected Stories Paley is a member of that select breed of writers who become masters of the short story and resist the pressure to produce a novel. This volume gathers together more than 30 years' worth of stellar stories from Paley's best-known collections, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes... Read more   Enormous Changes at the Last Minute       Just As I Thought With their loopy sense of humor, pervasive sorrow, and Lower East Side vernacular, Grace Paley's stories have earned her a permanent place in American literature. Now her publisher has collected almost three decades of essays, reviews, and lectures, which amount to cumulative, if oblique,... Read more     The Little Disturbances of Man Utterly Humane; Stylistic Economy What makes Paley worth reading and important is her language, which is plain, simple english, but the order in which she places the words create sentences that burst with gut-life. Her sentences are like clever, immigrant hands--hard-won wisdom with an untiring lust for life. Most of the stories are... Read more More Books by Grace Paley

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"Amazing Grace". A thoughtful article by Seth Rogovoy of the Berkshire Eagle (6/19/97) after a visit by Paley to Williamstown. Writing with Both Ears. A terrific interview of Paley by Wendy Lesser. From a 1996 issue of Salon magazine. New York State Writers Institute: Grace Paley. Includes a biography and bibliography. Just as I Thought, by Grace Paley. A review by Scott McLemee in the 4/22/98 issue of Salon magazine. Writing the Jewish Future: A Global Conversation. An on-going online conversation based on a conference sponsored by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. There are currently audio clips of Paley and other writers and critics from throughout the world discussing Jewish literary, social, political, and religious concerns as reflected in contemporary literature. Search for "Grace Paley" on All the Web -  AltaVista -  Direct Hit -  Goto -  Infoseek -  LookSmart -  Webcrawler -  Yahoo!

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