Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 7, 1996.

Grace Paley, born in 1922 in the Bronx, New York, is a poet and short story writer. Her three books of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day, were published together in The Collected Stories. A Lannan Literary Award recipient, Grace Paley read three stories, “Friends,” “Love,” and “Mother” on May 7, 1996. Ms. Paley talked with Carol Muske Dukes, whose books of poetry include Red Trousseau and Applause.

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