SOURCE: “Lox, Lettuce, and Love,” in Washington Post Book World, April 28, 1985, pp. 3, 13.

In the following review, Taliaferro offers praise for Later the Same Day.

There aren’t enough books by Grace Paley in the world, so a new one is cause for great rejoicing. In The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), her two previous short story collections, Grace Paley staked out her territory: New York tenement and city block as microcosm, playgrounds aswarm with children, streets jammed with mothers demonstrating for peace, love in the kitchen when the children finally go to bed. She’s our most fearlessly practical feminist. You could call her a doyenne of the American short story, but she’d probably hoot at the patrician word, for her stories are earthy, intimate, funny, astute and plebeian—just like her voice as a writer.

In Later the Same Day...