Introduction

This month, we'll hear a story by Grace Paley that was originally published in the New Yorker in 1978. Nell Freud and Berger not only chose this month's story, she's here to talk about it too. This program was recorded shortly before the death of the writer Grace Paley, whose work it honors. When you think about abortion, there's so much noise around it. But there's a quieter note amidst all of that noise.