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Two married writers express their shared activism in a surprising range of styles and voices.
Husband and wife, parents and grandparents, Grace Paley and Robert Nichols are two writers and activists who constantly engage the world. Here and Somewhere Else, including uncollected or unpublished fiction by both Paley and Nichols, encompasses diverse countries and cultures, and counterpoints stories and poems that reveal engaged artists inventing different ways to illuminate political themes and issues.
"A wife and husband write politically in very different ways, charting "new territories of the imagination." —Meena Alexander, author of Fault Lines
"A work of the highest interest, Nichol's ironic juxtapositions and Paley's heartbreaking elisions smile at each other across eternity." —Marilyn French, author of The Women's Room
"Opens up our thinking about race and class and the 'little disturbances' of men and women. A generous helping of stories and poems of two wonderful political writers bundled into one economical package."—Ruth Perry, author of Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture
Robert Nichols worked as a landscape architect and was involved in a nonprofit construction project for the teenagers of New York's Lower East Side. He was active in the antiwar movement and in the antinuclear movement.
Marianne Hirsch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she also has an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory; Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism; and The Familial Gaze.