I would give A Grace Paley Reader to a high-school graduate or a grandmother with equal confidence that they would each love it. The rest can be air around it, and will tell us everything we need to know. Ferrante is so smart she knows the real story is told in a few sharp blows. That is a few lines we get halfway through. A mother leaves her two young daughters for two years. She tells us the specials in such a way that we know our sole responsibility as patrons in her section is to just go right ahead and fuck ourselves.” No one working today writes a cornucopia sentence like Leilani. This line: “A waitress wearing a ten-gallon hat tosses a couple of sticky menus on the table. She is a gift of a voice and and someone I wish children would read in school.īlood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker didn’t so much change me as it opened my brain in a way that I thought only drugs could. I suppose it comes as no surprise that I like dark writing, like Williams’, which seems to start in the grave and tunnel downwards.Īnything by Grace Paley. Williams has looked over the edge and seen what wild darkness there is to see, and she has come back to write it down for us. The book that had the greatest influence on my writing Samanta Schweblin captures that great gnawing fear that comes with motherhood
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