From the original review of The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley in the Bridgeport Post Sun, April 1959:  A collection of short stories is relatively unusual as a literary debut, but in the case of Grace Paley the choice was by and large justified.

Virtually all of these ten stories center around love and they are written in a style that is an odd mixture of matter of factness, subdued sentimentality, and hyperbole.

Love, the author seems to suggest most of the time, is really a pretty funny business, and the best way to approach it is to appear hardboiled, while hiding a smile up one’s emotional sleeve. Read More→