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lelia_t's review against another edition
2.0
I’m not the right audience for collected essays, yet I keep buying them when I like the author. I’m gung-ho for the first several and then, as each essay takes me further away from my immediate interests, my enthusiasm wanes. That’s what happened with this collection. Elizabeth Hardwick is intelligent and insightful, but most of the topics she covers didn’t engage me, with the exception of the essay on Gertrude Stein. It may be that I don’t have the level of knowledge required to appreciate Hardwick, so I plan to dip back into this collection occasionally to see if I’m any closer.
rbrtsorrell's review against another edition
4.0
Novelist, critic, and co-founder of the New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick was an influential character in the New York literary scene in the second half of the twentieth century. This collection includes 50 years of her writings from 1953-2003. I reviewed the collection for the Cleaver, here:https://www.cleavermagazine.com/the-collected-essays-of-elizabeth-hardwick-reviewed-by-robert-sorrell/
alexlanz's review against another edition
Incredible how consistent her style remained. But it gets really good in the 80s and 90s, especially "The Fictions of America."
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