The Massachusetts Review is continuing its 50th birthday celebration with a special issue honoring the late Grace Paley. An activist, poet and award-winning master of the short story, Paley died in ...

Great reads around the web, from Damon Darlin, Steven Erlanger and others. Compiled by Anna Dubenko “A Grace Paley Reader” contains some of her acclaimed stories, a selection of poems and several ...

Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence, Greenwich Village activist and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a “combative pacifist,” has died. She was 84. Paley, who had ...

THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN by Grace Paley. 189 pages. Viking. $4.50. In this fast and fickle culture, British Critic Cyril Connolly once declared, it is ambition enough for any author to set out ...

“Paley is, for me, a kind of secular saint. What is a saint? Someone particularly attentive to things as they are, and extraordinarily accepting of them.” So wrote George Saunders on the tenth ...

MONTPELIER In music, poetry readings and spoken-word tributes, writer Grace Paley was remembered by friends and fellow peace activists in a memorial service. Acclaimed author Paley, 84, died Aug. 22 ...

KEENE, N.H. 10/5/04 - Writer and political activist Grace Paley once said political causes distract her from writing, preventing her from ever finishing a novel. “Art is too long and life is too short ...

Grace Paley, an iconic and idiosyncratic American literary voice, died Wednesday. She was 84, and had battled breast cancer. Paley wrote short stories and poems, and much of her writing was inspired ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Grace Paley is a Poet Laureate for Vermont with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Forum as . The year with the highest average number of ...