![]() ![]() But I do think that the written evidence of a good writer’s mind is exhilarating and fortifying and can sharpen one’s aspirations-and if you want to read spectacularly graceful distillations of spectacularly intense, complex, ephemeral experience, you could hardly do better than stories in Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry. I usually start classes with the very tiny “A Man Tells Me The Story of His Life,” because it’s a clear and smart way to illustrate how a good story has more than one story in it.Įvery writer has his or her own things to say, and every writer discovers those things in his or her own way and says them in his or her own way-so I’m dubious that it’s possible to learn much about making one’s own writing by reading someone else’s. Paley started out as a poet, and it shows. ![]() The Collected Stories by Grace Paley is a marvel of a book, a brilliant example for any writer who is looking to understand voice, concision, humor, the passage of time, and how to convey political passion lightly. – George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo ![]()
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