Alice Munro Won the Nobel! Celebrate the Short Story With 10 Other Masters of the Form
Grace Paley
Oh, you haven’t read Grace Paley? STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND START READING GRACE PALEY. This amazing woman was so much more than a writer, and yet so completely was she a writer. She was a feminist and a political activist and an agitator and a New Yorker and just sort of the perfect role model for all people everywhere really. But also, man could she write. Her story “Wants” is one of the most perfect examples of the short story that I’ve ever read. Not unlike Munro, Paley gave voice to women who had never before been represented in fiction. She has an incredibly vital and timeless voice that should be read by everyone, everywhere, immediately. Go, now. Go.