Friday, March 2, 2018

Grace Paley On Artists Engaging With Politics

Asked in the same Paris Review interview whether it’s good for a writer to be politically engaged in turbulent times, Paley registered the question’s absurdity, refusing the notion that politics might be a harmful distraction for an artist: "It certainly isn’t antithetical to a passionate interior life – all that noise coming in. You have to make music of it somehow."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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