5/10/2024 0 Comments Come ye sons of art text![]() Though I doubt most people I need to hear this will actually read it. Still, this is a good book of highly readable, cool short stories, and I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone. They all take place in New York neighborhoods that I know well (in much later, less cool incarnations, of course), and at least one of them is about a social worker, and another one is about a long-distance runner! Weird, right?! I related really personally to some of the material, and appreciated the stories more than someone who didn't feel that probably would. I'm sort of surprised I somehow hadn't read them before, since there's so much about them that's exactly the kind of thing that I like. These stories are pretty much all about poor single mothers, which I guess isn't much of a pitch, but they were very cool, fresh, weirdly fun stories. I really liked the way she wrote about female sexuality, even though the context was inevitably depressing. ![]() I thought a lot of these stories were kind of sexy, in this weird way. Edgy, stylish - not fancy stylish, but like, thrift-store dress that's unexpectedly tight in all the right places kind of stylish. I don't mean measured and even and emotionally restrained, I mean cool, they were cool, they were COOL stories! I mean yeah, of course they're dated I guess, being as they were written in the sixties or whatever, but they're still pretty - well, edgy, I'd say. I think what surprised me about these stories was that they were so cool. Okay, so now I've read some Grace Paley (and a little Chekov too, actually), and I'm not sure what I'd expected, but this wasn't it. I am here to tell you that I have never read Chekov, and I don't think I've ever read Grace Paley either.
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