Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Grace Paley wrote decades ago of Jewish people being called antisemitic when they criticize Israel's actions. (Toby Talbot ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a "combative pacifist," has died. She was 84. Paley, who had battled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts brings to life the momentous times in which this author and activist lived and worked as she reads from her short stories, poems and essays. Her work has been translated ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Back in the early 1960s, when I was taking my kids to the playground in New York's Washington Square Park, the idea of making literature out of the daily lives of mothers was practically unheard of.