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In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick


In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick - The New York Times

“Sleepless Nights,” her third novel, is unambiguously her chef d'oeuvre; it was published when she was 63, after a career of writing sharp, ingenious pieces of ...

Review: Darryl Pinckney's memoir 'Come Back in September'

“If you want to write,” he said, “you must read Elizabeth Hardwick. 'Seduction and Betrayal.'” After work I went straight to my local bookstore ...

The Gift of Elizabeth Hardwick's Attention - The Paris Review

Elizabeth Hardwick is one of the world's most valuable essayists and literary critics. That is to say, her essays are of value to anyone interested in the ways ...

Liz Kid - Bookforum

Most writers are soon forgotten after their deaths. Yet Elizabeth Hardwick, since her death in 2007, has achieved a rare transfiguration. Having left behind the ...

Apoorva Tadepalli: "Elizabeth Hardwick and the Feminist Marriage"

Elizabeth Hardwick's writings on marriage and care offer another way for me to make sense of my own feminism. I believe as much as the next ...

Elizabeth Hardwick: A Singular Woman - The New Yorker

Hilton Als on Elizabeth Hardwick's radical politics and her rare dedication to the essay as an imaginative form, from her novel “Sleepless ...

Elizabeth Hardwick - The New York Times

In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick ... “Of all the books I have reread to comfort myself, I have turned most often to 'Sleepless Nights,' not without a little bitter ...

The Season of Hardwick | Los Angeles Review of Books

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. 400 pages. IT IS ONE of the rare ...

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick - New York Review Books

Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick ... Praise. [Hardwick's] essays, now reissued by NYRB ...

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick - 4Columns

Hardwick took a Biblical position on syntax, pointing her clauses at thoughts several lines back, or at some larger idea implied by the second ...

The best of Elizabeth Hardwick - Washington Examiner

Sontag praised Hardwick's novel Sleepless Nights for its “epigrammatic dash.” How right she was. Few essayists have written more memorable lines ...

‹ Elizabeth Hardwick on Eight Icons of American Letters Book Marks

There is such sympathy in Hardwick's fleeting glances; it feels that each character, writer, or book she considers is held, for a moment, in her ...

The Hard Choices of Elizabeth Hardwick | The New Yorker

Behind the renowned prose, there was a writer constantly weighing the costs of freedom and submission. Maggie Doherty on Cathy Curtis's ...

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an ...

All Lock, No Key | Commonweal Magazine

There is real joy in Elizabeth Hardwick's essays, novels, and letters. There isn't much to be found in Curtis's A Splendid Intelligence. We keep ...

The Company She Kept | The New Republic

And yet it must have been very hard to actually be Elizabeth Hardwick. Her marriage to Robert Lowell in 1949 brought her both transcendent ...

Book Review — A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth ...

The subject of this book, Elizabeth Hardwick, corresponded with her circle of writers, friends, literary husband, and husband's family throughout her life. The ...

Review: April Bernard on Elizabeth Hardwick - Book Post - Substack

One of the finest fiction writers and essayists of her time, she yet appears as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale, and I find myself ...

Elizabeth Hardwick's “I” | The Point Magazine

The final book and first biography that Elizabeth Hardwick wrote was Herman Melville, which appeared in 2000, the year she turned 84.

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