Gish Jen Reads Grace Paley

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Deborah Treisman
The New Yorker: Fiction | Mar 1, 2022

Gish Jen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Friends,” by Grace Paley, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Jen is the author of nine books, including the novel “The Resisters” and the story collection “Thank you, Mr. Nixon,” which was published in February.

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