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Article: The swiveling light of truth: remembering Grace Paley and her wise, fierce, funny, sad, innovative short stories.(In memoriam)
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- September 22, 2008
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I can still remember, all these years later, the shiver of pleasure that ran through me when at the end of the 1950s I first read Grace Paley's early stories. Hers was a voice so raucous, so appealing, that I felt as if someone had grabbed me by the lapels of my very proper Peck & Peck jacket and was shouting at me to revise my view of the world. Young as I was, I knew that if I had any thoughts about becoming a writer, I had to listen. I never dreamed that I would one day sit in Grace Paley's office at Sarah Lawrence and that we would become friends with that special relationship of graduate student to teacher.
In recent years, and especially since her death in ...
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