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Every week, the editors of <\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week, we bring you our 1992 interview with Grace Paley<\/a>. It is one of the twelve interviews we\u2019ve chosen for our new collection,\u00a0Women at Work<\/em>. Introduced by Ottessa Moshfegh, with illustrations by Joana Avillez, Women at Work<\/em> spans the history of the Review<\/em>, comprising our original interviews with Dorothy Parker, Isak Dinesen, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Elizabeth Bishop, Margaret Atwood, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, Jan Morris, Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, and Claudia Rankine.<\/p>\n

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Women at Work<\/em> is available only from The Paris Review<\/em>, with all proceeds going to support the magazine. Today, October 17, is the last day to\u00a0preorder the book for 50% off the cover price\u2014just\u00a0$10. Order yours now<\/a>! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Grace Paley, The Art of Fiction No. 131
\n<\/a><\/strong>Issue no.\u00a0124 (Fall 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

What were you doing before you became a published writer?<\/p>\n

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GRACE PALEY<\/p>\n

I was working part time. I was hanging out a lot. I was kind of lazy. I had my kids when I was about twenty-six, twenty-seven. I took them to the park in the afternoons. Thank God I was lazy enough to spend all that time in Washington Square Park. I say\u00a0lazy\u00a0but of course it was kind of exhausting running after two babies. Still, looking back I see the pleasure of it. That\u2019s when I began to know women very well\u2014as co-workers, really. I had a part-time job as a typist up at Columbia. In fact, when I began to write stories, I typed some up there, and some in the PTA office of P.S. 41 on Eleventh Street. If I hadn\u2019t spent that time in the playground, I wouldn\u2019t have written a lot of those stories. That\u2019s pretty much how I lived. And then we had our normal family life\u2014struggles and hard times. That takes up a lot of time, hard times. Uses up whole days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read the rest of the interview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>If you like what you read,\u00a0order a copy of<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Women at Work<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0get a year of <\/a><\/em>The Paris Review<\/a>\u2014four new issues, plus instant access to everything we\u2019ve ever published.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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