A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

"A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, â€œcomes 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.â€ 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 tenantsâ€™ rights movement, the anti-nuclear-power movement, and the Womenâ€™s Pentagon Action, among other causes, and proved herself to be a passionate citizen of each of her communitiesâ€”New York City and rural Vermont. A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paleyâ€™s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words.

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