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Nell Freudenberger Discusses Grace Paley

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Grace Paley's the Big Gun

Grace Paley talks about a documentary that Antonioni made in China, which I think was made in 1972 for Italian state TV. The Chinese government absolutely hated what he did and called on all the Chinese people to denounce it - even though none of them had ever actually seen it. She says she didn't know when she started writing that there was going to be another section taking place in New York.

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