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Gish Jen Reads Grace Paley

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Ae, I Don't Think I Really Admire About Ae

"These women are such incredible observers," she says. "They're out there, you knowno noticing, not noticing things." The characterization is so clear that the reader knows who each character is and what he or she thinks about them before they even say it.

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