The New Yorker: Fiction

Gish Jen Reads Grace Paley

Mar 1, 2022

59:23

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Is That Really Anti-Feminism?

02:24

I Was Right to Invent for My Friends and My Children

02:03

Grace Paley's Friends, by Gishjen

02:27

Introduction

2min

How Did You Come to Know Grace Paley?

2min

Friends by Grace Paley, Friends, by Gish Jen

2min

The Tennency, I Suppose, Is to Remember.

5min

Selina, You Should See Richards Still. He's in Spain

2min

I've Got a Lot of Pain, I'm Not in Much Pain

4min

A Little Kid, Papa and Mamma's Darling?

4min

I'd Never Fool Around With a Spanish Guy

3min

I Don't Want to Talk About Micky, Said, Anne.

3min

10.

The Train Stopped Hard, Will You?

4min

11.

Grace Paley's Friends, by Gishjen

2min

12.

In a Short Story, Faith Is All Wrong, Right?

2min

13.

Is That Really Anti-Feminism?

2min

14.

What Do You Know About Me?

2min

15.

Anthony's Like Faith, You Know That?

2min

16.

You Don't Have to Say Hat, You Know, You Dont Have to Say Hat

2min

17.

Are the Rose Coloured Glasses Coming Off?

2min

18.

Is There a Truth in That?

2min

19.

I Was Right to Invent for My Friends and My Children

2min

20.

The Relationship Between a Mother and a Child

2min

21.

How Little She Says While Saying So Much?

2min

22.

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

2min

23.

Grace Paley's Writings

4min

Gish Jen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Friends,” by Grace Paley, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Jen is the author of nine books, including the novel “The Resisters” and the story collection “Thank you, Mr. Nixon,” which was published in February.

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