A review by lelia_t
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick

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.