New Releases by Grace Paley

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, GRACE PALEY ''Grace Paley''s is exceptional'' KASIA BODDY, GUARDIAN ''Her unladylike gutsiness and friendliness are nonpareil'' EDMUND WHITE, OBSERVER ''They are stories full of the stories we all tell and live by, tall stories as well as short'' SALMAN RUSHDIE Here are all Grace Paley''s classic stories in one volume. From her first book The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) to Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985), Grace Paley''s quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers'' hearts and secured her place as one of America''s most accomplished short story writers. Her stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, her extraordinary capacity for empathy and her pointed depiction of the small and large events that make up daily life.

One of The New Yorker''s "Books We Loved in 2017" A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words. "A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, “comes along and brightens language up again, takes it aside and gives it a pep talk, sends it back renewed, so it can do its job, which is to wake us up.” Best known for her inimitable short stories, Grace Paley was also an enormously talented essayist and poet, as well as a fierce activist. She was a tireless member of the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the tenants’ rights movement, the anti-nuclear-power movement, and the Women’s Pentagon Action, among other causes, and proved herself to be a passionate citizen of each of her communities—New York City and rural Vermont.

This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley''s vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley''s inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.

The collected poems--some never previously published--of one of our best-loved, most respected authors. Combining Grace Paley''s four previous collections and new unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of this direct, attentive, never predictable poet. Whether she describes the vicissitudes and pleasures of life in New York City or the hard beauty of her adoptive rural Vermont, whether she celebrates the blessings of friendship or protests against social injustice, her poems brim with the compassion and tough good humor that have made her stories and essays famous.

Als reinen Glücksfall bezeichnete Grace Paley das Erscheinen ihres ersten Erzählungsbands DIE KLEINEN WIDRIGKEITEN DES LEBENS im Jahr 1959. Bis zum Beginn der amerikanischen Frauen-, Friedens- und Bürgerrechtsbewegung hatte die selbstbewusste New Yorker Hausfrau und Mutter ausschliesslich Gedichte geschrieben. Aber dann habe sie ihr Gehör für die Geschichten ihrer Mitmenschen entdeckt, beschrieb Paley den Wechsel zu dem Genre, für das sie berühmt wurde. Diese Erfahrungen gibt sie mit ihrem ganz eigenen, von der Sprache der jüdisch-osteuropäischen Einwanderer gefärbten Ton wieder: im Sound ihrer Generation, in schlagfertigen Wortwechseln und Szenen urbanen Lebens. "Grace Paley gehört zu einer seltenen Gattung von Schriftstellern mit einer Stimme, wie niemand sonst sie hat: komisch, traurig, bescheiden, energisch, genau", schwärmte Susan Sontag. Die Neuübersetzung der Erzählungen erschliesst erstmals Paleys lakonische Genauigkeit, ihren eigenwilligen Witz und ihren ironisch unbekümmerten Blick auf die absurden Wendungen des Alltags: "Einmal hat mir mein Mann zu Weihnachten einen Besen geschenkt. Das war nicht recht. Niemand kann mir erzählen, er hätte es nett gemeint." Grace Paley, 1922 als Tochter russisch-jüdischer Einwanderer in New York geboren, war neben ihrer schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit in der Friedens-, Frauen- und Bürgerrechtsbewegung aktiv. Sie veröffentlichte zahlreiche Shortstorys und Gedichtbände und erhielt mehrere bedeutende Auszeichnungen und Preise für ihr Lebenswerk, das jetzt vollständig in Neuübersetzungen bei Schöffling Co. erscheint. Grace Paley starb 2007 in Vermont.

Considérée comme l''un des écrivains américains les plus importants du XXe siècle, Grace Paley (1922-2007) écrivait peu. Côté fiction : trois recueils de nouvelles, trois merveilles rééditées aujourd''hui en un seul volume et dans lesquelles elle raconte le minime de la vie, cet ordinaire où se jouent les grandes affaires de la condition humaine. Mais Grace Paley, en fervente militante politique, est aussi une incroyable caisse de résonance des années 1960 et 1970 dans ce qu''elles eurent de meilleur : liberté de ton et d''esprit, engagements pour les droits des Noirs, des femmes, le pacifisme, la fin de la guerre au Vietnam, le souci écologique. Tels sont le décor et les personnages de cette plume moqueuse, pour qui lucidité et joie jamais ne furent contradictoires.

Just before her death in 2007 at the age of 84, Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, "Fidelity" is her passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind.

Various stories and poems by Grace Paley and Robert Nichols.

For use in teaching literature to high school students.

With firm authority Paley discusses topics of wide range, many of which she describes as personal discoveries. She includes politics and environmentalism, the family and human relationships, the impact of background and education, the moral importance of community, feminism and women''s liberation, the sexual self and role enforcement, America''s need for communality and women''s creative response to it, the art of teaching, and the importance of friendship.

“While nearly every Jewish female reader will find herself reflected here, the poignancy of these stories will be felt by readers of all ethnicities.”—Library Journal Chicken soup and Barbra Streisand, lost fathers and first dates, Hebrew school and Queen Esther, seders and seductions. In this insightful, original anthology, forty-five American Jewish writers explore the richness of their shared heritage, from the tragic to the trivial. In memoirs, fiction, and poetry new and favorite writers like Grace Paley, Amy Bloom, Vivian Gornick, and Laura Cunningham brilliantly reveal the challenges of coming of age as a Jewish woman in America today. What have we lost that our mothers and grandmothers had? Do we still feel close ties to family and community? Can we make a decent pot roast? This spirited collection is full of humor and wisdom, memory and affection—and there isn’t a Jewish girl (nice or otherwise) who won’t find herself reflected in these vibrant pages.

Avec sa drôlerie et son ton jamais imité, Grace Paley met en scène les drames de la vie quotidienne dans le New York des années 60. Dans ce deuxième recueil de nouvelles, après Les Petits Riens de la vie (Rivages, 1985) on retrouve certains personnages, en particulier Faith, l''alter ego de l''auteur, qui sera aussi présente dans son troisième recueil Plus tard le même jour (Rivages, 1986).

Like her celebrated short fiction, Paley''s poems are street-smart yet vulnerable, full of earthy observations and a refreshing bemusement; they display a wonderful ear for the rhythm of the speech of her native New York, where "talk is cheap but comes in variety." She "tells the story of the stories" told by children and grandmothers, which resonate "in the mind''s ear" as "talk talk talk/the tickling tongue/of strangers." These poems are rich with the fullness of everyday life: the doings of Paley''s Greenwich Village neighborhood, summers in Vermont, fulltime political activism, memories of family and friends. Paley''s wonderful economy with words recalls William Carlos Williams and the objectivist poets. ISBN 0-88448-098-4: $19.95.

    This first collaboration of two long-time feminist and antiwar activists is a wonderful melding of word and image that creates a powerful call for world peace. Paley''s poems and short fiction and William''s vivid watercolors depict the beauty and dignity of "ordinary" lives from El Salvador to the Bronx, from New Hampshire to Vietnam. Scenes and stories of domestic life, solitude, and nature are interspersed with heart-wrenching images of women widowed and children crippled by war and incarcerated by urban poverty, Here, too, are stories and paintings of protest, joyous and defiant.

" Grace Paley est une magicienne irrésistible dans le comique comme dans le pathétique, car elle les marie d''une manière indissoluble. " François Bott, Le Monde.

Whether writing about relationships, sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style in this book of short stories. "Fresh and vigorous...Mrs. Paley’s view of life is her own."--The New Yorker "The glad tidings from this reviewer’s corner are of the appearance of a [writer] possessed of an all-too-infrequent literary virtue--the comic vision."--The New York Times

Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, this book humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical.