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...

All those new-season, early summer vegetables, whose arrival I anticipated so eagerly, have come and shone brightly, and stayed around. August is the month when there is just so much of everything. This is the time to drag out the chutney pan or...

I was pleased to read in the paper the next day who had won last Sunday's Marine Corps Marathon: mostly Mexican sailors, who, it seems, train on government time. A reproof to a race billed as "the people's marathon," meaning no big names are...