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Celebration of New Publication, "A Grace Paley Reader"

The Dept. of English & Creative Writing welcomes visiting readers to present the new publication, "A Grace Paley Reader", celebrating the work of the renowned short-story author.

Thursday, April 12, 2018
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Sanborn Library, Sanborn House
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Lectures & Seminars

Join us in celebrating the paperback release of A Grace Paley Reader and enjoy a reading of excerpts chosen from Paley's collected work.

"Grace Paley (1922-2007) is best known — renowned, even — for her short stories. Her 'Collected Stories' should be on the shelf of any serious fan of the form. A new anthology, 'A Grace Paley Reader,' contains some of those stories, a selection of poems and several essays that show a different side of the writer...George Saunders provides a wonderful introduction, in which he describes what he finds so brilliant about Paley’s voice...'Paley is, for me, a kind of secular saint,' he writes, 'What is a saint? Someone particularly attentive to things as they are and extraordinarily accepting of them. Paley honors every person and thing she creates by presenting them at their best, or at least their liveliest — which may be the same thing." - The New York Times Book Review

This event is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be provided!

 

Source of New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/review/grace-paley-reader.html

Find this and other English & Creative Writing Department events here: http://english.dartmouth.edu/news-events

 

 

For more information, contact:
Erin Bennett
603-646-2316

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.