{"id":217,"date":"2011-04-07T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-04-09T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:01:26","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found out about this: Grace Paley: Collected Shorts<\/a>,\u00a0a film by Lilly Rivlin.<\/p>\n

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Grace was not one of my teachers at Sarah Lawrence. But you could be Grace\u2019s student without ever being in one of her classes. If you were in the writing program or involved in any of the protest movements at that time (early-mid 70\u2019s), you got to know Grace. Tiny, willful, no-nonsense\u2014and one of the great writers of our time.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t need more tributes, certainly not from me. But the world needs more Grace. The website sells DVD\u2019s. The trailer doesn\u2019t look particularly wonderful. But I\u2019m buying a copy and urge you to do the same.<\/p>\n

One of the riveting things about Grace-in writing and planning protests-was her relentless focus on tangible detail. She blew through pretense and attitude as though it didn\u2019t exist, wasn\u2019t worth even noticing. I can\u2019t say I learned to be a writer from Grace but I learned something about being a person, about being someone I could look in the mirror, just being around her. And if there\u2019s a little of that in this film, that\u2019s enough to recommend it highly.<\/p>\n

And while you\u2019re at it, go here <\/a>or your local bookstore and buy at least one of Grace\u2019s books. Neil Young always says he listens to the Basement Tapes before recording an album, to remind himself how to keep it real. Grace might be the written equivalent of that and that\u2019s pretty high praise, even coming from an idiot like me.<\/p>\n

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