Clay (short story) Clay (short story) "Clay" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." It is important to note that due to this short story being left intentionally vague by its author, there can be numerous interpretations on what occurs in the story and the analysis of it. Maria, an elderly woman with a job in a rescue mission for wayward women, is looking forward to a holiday evening at the house of Joe, whom she nursed when he was a boy and of whom she is still very fond. She departs for Joe's after attending a
Family Ties (short story collection) Family Ties (short story collection) Family Ties ("Laços de família" in Portuguese) is a 1960 short story collection by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. "Family Ties" consists of thirteen short stories. "Family Ties" was published in 1960, after the Lispector's permanent return to Brazil from the United States. Several of the stories were written between 1943 and 1945. Lispector wrote "O jantar" in 1943. It was first published in the Rio de Janeiro newspaper "A manh" in October 1946. The story "O Crime do professor de matemática", was published, in an earlier version, as "O Crime", in 1945 in another