Halle Berry, David Duchovny, Bill Murray Oct 8, 2008
The author Amy Hempel, whose candid takes on modern life have brought her a small, but devoted following, has been named this year's winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, a $30,000 prize that in previous years has been given to Paul Bowles, Eudora Welty and Grace Paley. A native of Chicago who now lives in New York, the 56-year-old Hempel has published such acclaimed collections as "Reasons to Live" and "The Dog of the Marriage." (AP). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Click for Full Story Aug 22, 2008
Poet and short story writer Grace Paley died in Thetford Hill, Vermont, at age 84. Today's Birthdays: Author Ray Bradbury is 88. (KWTX.com, TX)
Was New American Review the Best Literary Magazine Ever? Aug 20, 2008
Its roster of fiction included work by Philip Roth (two pieces from Portnoy's Complaint and "I Always Wanted You To Admire My Fasting: Looking at Kafka"), Leonard Michaels, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Max Apple ("The Oranging of America"), John Barth, Tom Robbins, Susan Sontag, V.S. Pritchett, Grace Paley ("Faith: In a Tree"), Robert Stone, Ian McEwan (three of his earliest stories), Jorge Luis Borges, Gilbert Sorrentino ("The Moon in Its Flight"), Brian Moore, J.F. Powers, Cynthia Ozick, Stanley... (Slate)
Look closer... Jun 16, 2008
Fidelity by Grace Paley. Verses in the unmistakable, now-stilled voice of the great short-story writer. (Boston Globe)
Poetic Clarity Apr 11, 2008
"Fidelity," an excellent posthumous collection of poems from Grace Paley, the late fiction writer, feminist, political activist and poet, begins with a poem called "Proverbs." Its tone is pensive and instructive. It pleads, in closing. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Anne Enright Mar 15, 2008
Collected Stories by Grace Paley, The art of Dorothy Cross. . (Guardian Unlimited)
Love, the essence of human behaviour Feb 11, 2008
This is less a surprise when you consider the stellar contributors, including works by such surgical observers of the subject as Anton Chekhov ("The Lady With the Little Dog"), James Joyce ("The Dead"), William Faulkner ("A Rose for Emily"), Vladimir Nabokov ("Spring in Fialta"), William Trevor ("Lovers of Their Time"), Grace Paley ("Love"), Milan Kundera ("The Hitchhiking Game") and the sublime Alice Munro ("The Bear Came Over the Mountain," being the story that gave birth to Sarah Polley's... (Toronto Star)
Love between the covers Jan 31, 2008
This anthology presents love stories by the greats, including William Faulkner, Lorrie Moore, Grace Paley, James Joyce and William Trevor. Posted. (USA Today -- Life)
With grit or grace, they left their mark Jan 1, 2008
Writers Tillie Olsen and Grace Paley were renowned for their feminist views as well as their compelling prose. Readers will long cherish the work of novelists Mark Harris, A.I. Bezzerides, Richard Prather, Sheila Ballantyne, Philip Craig, Elizabeth Jolley, Lloyd Alexander, Robert Jordan, Paul Erdman, John Gardner, Jane Rule, and Michael Dibdin; poets William Meredith, Philip Booth, Mary Ellen Solt, Liam Rector, Sekou Sundiata, Jane Cooper, Paul Roche, Lothar-G nther Buchheim, and Emmett... (Boston Globe)
Notables who died in 2007 include Lady Bird Johnson, Norman Mailer, Jerry Falwell Jan 1, 2008
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Famous Who Fell Dec 31, 2007
Send news tip to FOXNews. Notables Who Died in 2007 Include Lady Bird Johnson, Norman Mailer, Anna Nicole Smith. (Fox News)
Who died in 2007 Dec 29, 2007
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Artists, entertainers who died in 2007 include Deborah Kerr, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Goulet Dec 20, 2007
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Women of 2007 Dec 19, 2007
A writer, feminist, activist, teacher, publisher - and, in her own words, a "combative pacifist, and a cooperative anarchist" - Grace Paley packed an epic amount of activity into her 84 years, before her death from breast cancer in August. The daughter of Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrants, she grew up in the Bronx and channelled the voices of New York into her three collections of short stories. (Guardian Unlimited)
Mailer knew his way around sentence structure Nov 19, 2007
If he didn't rise above them all to take his place with Faulkner, Dostoevski and Tolstoy, as he at one time envisioned himself doing, he was at the very least right in there with the best of his contemporaries who include, after all, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike and two particular thorns in Mailer's tough, scarred hide: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. But after charging onto the literary landscape with The Naked and the Dead (1948), his bold, brash,... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Jane Cooper, 83; poet wrote about her life and the challenges of being a female writer Nov 14, 2007
She joined the Sarah Lawrence faculty in 1950 and, along with short-story writer Grace Paley, poet Muriel Rukeyser and others, helped build the school's highly regarded creative writing program. Cooper retired from teaching in 1987 and was the school's emeritus poet in residence. (Los Angeles Times)
Jane Cooper, at 83; poet who explored the lives of women Nov 10, 2007
At Sarah Lawrence, Ms. Cooper - together with writer Grace Paley, poet Muriel Rukeyser, and others - helped develop the college's widely respected writing program. Ms. Cooper retired from the faculty in 1987. (Boston Globe)
In Montpelier, memorial service for former poet laureate Oct 8, 2007
(AP) - Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service featuring music, readings of her work and other tributes. The 84-year-old writer and peace activist, who lived in Thetford Hill, died in August. (WCAX.com, VT)
The books that changed our lives Sep 26, 2007
The Long Distance Runner is a story by Grace Paley, who died of breast cancer, aged 84, in August. It showed me that feminism isn't an argument or a position but a kind of sanity. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Fox: Grace Paley Passes Aug 26, 2007
Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies ... Grace Paley, the celebrated writer and social activist whose acclaimed short stories explored in precise, pungent and tragicomic style the struggles of ordinary women muddling through everyday lives, died Wednesday at her home in Thetford Hill, Vt. (Zmag.org)
Grace Paley, 84, short story writer, activist Aug 25, 2007
Grace Paley, the celebrated writer and social activist whose short stories explored in precise, pungent and tragicomic style the struggles of ordinary women muddling through everyday lives, died on Wednesday at her home in Thetford Hill, Vt ... Grace Paley is shown in her home in Thetford, Vt. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Noted poet, peace activist Grace Paley dies Aug 24, 2007
Author Grace Paley sits beside a pile of books in her home in Thetford, Vt ... NEW YORK - Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a combative pacifist, has died ... Great artists like Grace Paley do that and more. (MSNBC -- News)
Grace Paley, writer and activist, dies Aug 24, 2007
Grace Paley in her home in Thetford Hill, Vermont in 2003 ... Grace Paley, the writer and social activist whose acclaimed short stories explored in precise, pungent and tragicomic style the struggles of ordinary women muddling through everyday lives, died Wednesday at her home in Thetford Hill, Vermont She was 84 and lived most of her life in New York before moving to Vermont in 1988. (International Herald Tribune)
Writer Grace Paley dies at 84, in Thetford Aug 24, 2007
Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, an old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a "combative pacifist," died yesterday in Thetford Hill. She was 84. (WCAX.com, VT)
Noted short-story writer, peace activist dead Aug 24, 2007
Grace Paley wrote highly praised short stories, poems ... 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 ... Grace Paley's short story collections include "Later the Same Day.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Rocket Science: Truth, but embellished Aug 16, 2007
" So Blitz got his B.A., and then an M.F.A., in Johns Hopkins' creative writing program, studying with John Barth, J.M. Coetzee and Grace Paley. At the same time, he began taking film classes, learning about Hitchcock, Kubrick. And then it was off to Los Angeles, and the film program at USC. After turning in his thesis work ("a very screwy, dark movie about a principal having an affair with one of his students," and boasting a cameo from George Segal), Blitz went to work for the Writers Guild of... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
'Edges' Feaured at NWSA in Chicago Jun 12, 2007
Source: Grace Paley's Glad Day Books ... "A feverish, sensual, remarkable book." --Meredith Sue Willis Nominated for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award by Grace Paley ... Source: Grace Paley's Glad Day Books. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Writers Honor a Special Muse Apr 27, 2007
"When I invited Grace Paley she said, 'I'm there. Anything for you and Michael.' That was the comment they all made.". On April 11, 10 of America's greatest living literary legends arrived at New York City's Symphony Space theater for a singular purpose-to pay homage to the American short story and the man who sought to bring prestige and appreciation to the form, the late Michael Moorhead Rea. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Processing words in an activist's kitchen Feb 3, 2007
Getting inside the mind of the wise and witty short story writer, poet, and social activist Grace Paley is even trickier ... The subtitle of "States of Grace" is "a play inspired by the stories of Grace Paley," but Wise overreaches in her effort to pay tribute both to Paley and her trenchant vision. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Author Tillie Olsen dies at age 94 Jan 3, 2007
She published just two works of fiction "Tell Me a Riddle" and "Yonnondio" but she was well known among writers, teachers and feminists, her friends and fans including Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood and Grace Paley. "Oh my God, my old friend!" Paley told the AP on Tuesday. (Yahoo News -- Literature and Authors)
