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.
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