Aarons, Victoria, "A Perfect Marginality Public and Private Telling in the Stones of Grace Paley," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol 27, No. 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 35-43

Aarons explores the development of identity and the precarious line between fiction and reality in Paley's stones Arcana, Judith. Grace Paley's Life Stories A Literary Biography, University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Arcana's work is a study of Paley's life and art She argues that "much of what Grace Paley asserts in her stones, as in political action, is the strength and force of individual character embodied in human presence."