The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick / selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney.

Machine generated contents note: To the Point: Selected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick -- PROPOSED TABLE OF CONTENTS -- NOT FINAL -- 1. The Decline of Book Reviewing -- 2. Anderson, Millay, and Crane in Their Letters -- 3. William James: An American Hero -- 4. Mary McCarthy -- 5. The Neglected Novels of Christina Stead -- 6. Memoirs, Conversations and Diaries -- 7. George Eliot's Husband -- 8. Loveless Love: Graham Greene -- 9. America and Dylan Thomas -- 10. The Subjection of Women -- 11. Simone Weill -- 12. Uncollected Stories of Faulkner -- 13. Meeting VS Naipaul -- 14. Ring Lardner -- 15. Robert Frost in His Letters -- 16. Domestic Manners -- 17. Thomas Mann at 100 -- 18. Wives and Mistresses -- 19. Nabokov: Master Class -- 20. Bartleby in Manhattan -- 21. The Sense of the Present -- 22. Fiction -- 23. English Visitors in America -- 24. Letters of Delmore Schwartz -- 25. Mrs. Wharton in New York -- 26. On Washington Square -- 27. The Genius of Margaret Fuller -- 28. Gertrude Stein -- 29. Djuna Barnes: The Fate of the Gifted -- 30. Katherine Anne Porter -- 31. Wind from the Prairie (Masters, Sandburg, ) -- 32. Edmund Wilson -- 33. Norman Mailer: The Teller and the Tape -- 34. Mary McCarthy in New York -- 35. The Magical Prose of Poets: Elizabeth Bishop -- 36. Tru Confessions (Capote) -- 37. Melville: Redburn -- 38. Thomas Wolfe -- 39. Sinclair Lewis -- 40. Nathaniel West -- 41. Henry James -- 42. Tess Slesinger -- 43. Schhedrin -- 44. Boston -- 45. After Watts -- 46. Selma -- 47. The Emigre.

Includes bibliographical references.
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