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Good essays: for writers, about writers. Remove a star if you're not one. Add one if you are one.Melville Wharton M. Fuller W. James J. Reed Stein Sandburg Masters E. Millay M. McCarthy Nabokov Plath Cheever Updike Roth Didion E. Wilson Capote Mailer and more
Hardwick was a stalwart of the NY Review of Books; this book appears to be a best of (or all?) of her literary essays, mostly book reviews. As many collections, some essays were better than others but there are a lot of nuggets that will promote further reading an exploration.
Elizabeth Hardwick has been known as one of the great critics of the last 50 years on par with someone like Edmund Wilson. The New Yorker’s James Woods listed her as an influence. So I recently read a collection of her work called American Fictions. It had some very intriguing essays on writers from a broad spectrum of America’s literary canon: early masters like Melville, Wharton and James-lesser know feminist stars like Margaret Fuller, Djuna Barnes, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Pl...
Just finished her essay on John Reed, who I hadn't thought of for years. Hardwick's synthesis of the early years of the Russian Rev. is brilliant. Her choices - a prime quote from Trotsky's "The History of the Russian Revolution," her honest appraisal of Reed and of Ten Days That Shook the World (deservedly complimentary) - trustworthy. Reading about earlier figures, Wharton, Henry James...made me feel like I was an English major again. Her analysis of Bartleby is brilliant. Cannot recommend thi...
