Grace Paley: search & destroy; classic or dud; etc.

13 years later i can tell nabisco the story he was thinking of is the first one in the collection 'enormous changes at the last minute', which i just finished, and loved. i'd never heard of her til recently when i read a george saunders piece talking about how great she is.

any other fans?

i guess i should just get her collected stories now

I like this profile, if a profile can be something like a 360 view, with reference to A Grace Paley Reader, fairly recent selection of stories, poems, nonfiction (A not The, which seems appropriate):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/the-art-and-activism-of-grace-paley

Paley should be considered one of the great mid-century American writers, seems ripe for "rediscovery" in every way (though of course she has never stopped being beloved by other writers and MFA students) Crackling American demotic language which is in every way LITERARY -- so hard to do, so few succeed.

Yeah she's great - need to get into the poetry & essays, I have a couple of collections.

Thanks, JUST SAYIN

Reading Collected Stories thanks to Lydia Davis' active interest.

I'm adjusting to her rhythms.

good stuff

i read 'later the same day' last month & ordered 'the little disturbances of man' as soon as i finished it.