Few other fiction writers in late twentieth-century American letters have had so great an influence as Grace Paley on the basis of so few books in a lifetime of work. Even fewer fiction writers--one thinks mainly of Raymond Carver--have attained such a r...

Grace Paley's short stories are vivid examples of twentieth-century American local color and regional sensibility. Populated by many a hue and caste of New York citizen and narrated in a supple, percussive urban demotic, Paley's sketches and tales good-n...

The American writer Grace Paley (born 1922) is best known for her three collections of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Later the Same Day (1985). As long as she has been a writer, Pale...

Maybe it's my age, maybe it's where I am in life, but this year, when my father's birthday came around, I didn't want to just go around it again. I am nearly the same age my father was when he died. And we needed...

This is another instalment in our converts series.--Editor I was a cradle Anglican for some 76 years. I was raised Anglican both culturally and spiritually by my family. After so many years I was able to recite from memory the prayers, the...