Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: The Short Stories of Grace Paley




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ClassGraphic Grace Paley is one of the greatest short story writers of the 20th century, achieving recognition through just three slim volumes of her work published in 1959, 1974, and 1985. Her brilliant, funny, and poignant stories reflect the richness of her own life. A 2017 New Yorker profile stated, “There’s a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century.” Omitted from that description are her roles as a mother, a wife, a daughter of radical Russian Jewish immigrants, and a New Yorker, all of which helped her create what New York Review of Books contributing critic Michael Wood called "a whole small country of damaged, fragile, haunted citizens." Our text will be The Collected Stories of Grace Paley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). During this four-week journey together, we will read and reflect on a selection of her stories. We anticipate lively discussions as we explore Grace Paley’s world.
 

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4 Session(s)
Weekly - Tue

Location
500 Davis Center

Instructor
Multiple

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$0.00

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Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
7/7/2026 - 7/28/2026 Weekly - Tue 01:15 PM - 03:15 PM Evanston, 500 Davis Center  Map Marybeth Schroeder  ; Lisa Oberman 

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