In the essays collected here Elizabeth Hardwick covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature – Melville, James, Wharton – and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers’ lives – women writers, rebels, Americans abroad – and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries.
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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