Lolita is one of my favorite books. His opening to that book is the finest piece of prose writing I've read in a long while. I tend to like writers who are a bit nontraditional, and in that vein, Grace Paley is one of the best. Try Enormous Changes at the Last Minute , her second collection, which contains 15 years worth of her city-set stories. We'd Come to See by Michele Glazer .
Glazer lives in Portland.
This volume was selected by Jorie Graham for the Associated Writing Program's Award Series in Poetry, drawing comparisons to Elizabeth Bishop .