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'Old Ladies: Stories'

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We talk with long-time Bay Area resident and former Stanford University creative writing professor Nancy Packer. Her new short story collection “Old Ladies: Stories” revolves around older women of all sorts: a cleaning woman, an artist, a widow and a happily married woman.

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Nancy Huddleston Packer, professor emerita of English and former director of the creative writing program at Stanford University

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