Grace Paley: “Wants”

Through the course of three decades, American writer Grace Paley grabbed reader attention by writing about the lives of Jewish, Hispanic, and black families of New York.
The women of Paley’s stories often live in the same diaspora—the lone woman abandoned by a man. “Wants” is no different, trailing a divorcee narrator who has [...]

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North Dakota State University: Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
If simple plots in stories really are the most evocative then Raymond Carver has always hit the mark with his highly regarded piece “Cathedral.” First published in 1981 in Atlantic Monthly, this story is essentially about emotionally inaccessible people who manage to find a strange yet genuine connection.
“Cathedral” [...]

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