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Apparently, “Feminism” Is Done and Dusted

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick

August 22, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo and also This is a collection of essays written from approximately 1950 through 1990 by proto-feminist Elizabeth Hardwick, primarily for magazines, and more importantly, magazines for the female reader such as Vogue, House & Garden, and Mademoiselle.  They are on various random topics such as cheese grits and Parsifal, but the bulk of them are on political topics or what she referred to as “the feminine principle”.  Let’s take a look. The old feminist, the brilliant, self-assertive, daring, reforming woman is as extinct as […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: 1960s to 1970s politics and weirdness as well, But also essays on places and food, cbr16 bingo and also, elizabeth hardwick, Ladies who lunch mentality, Magazine essays 1950 to 1990, Oh child, Proto-feminist

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:28 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: 1960s to 1970s politics and weirdness as well, But also essays on places and food, cbr16 bingo and also, elizabeth hardwick, Ladies who lunch mentality, Magazine essays 1950 to 1990, Oh child, Proto-feminist ·
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Readings about Reading

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Twenty Five Books that Shaped America by Thomas Foster

How to Read Noves like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

May 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods – 5/5 Stars One of the most exciting things to feel, for me at least, is when reading becomes not just an act of enjoying and engaging with a story or ideas, but an active hunt for meaning and understanding. I am a big proponent of doing the reading you want to do and mostly letting other people do the reading they want to do. Eco describes early in this collection of six lectures on reading (and specifically on […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth hardwick, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Thomas Foster, umberto eco

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:231 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: elizabeth hardwick, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Thomas Foster, umberto eco ·
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Tony, informed, said: They love funerals.

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick

We Live In Water by Jess Walter

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman

Elementals by AS Byatt

December 31, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

New York Stories – 4/5 Stars I read Elizabeth Hardwick’s collected essays earlier this year. I also read her novel Sleepless Nights last year. This is a collection of stories that encompasses about 45-50 years worth of short stories edited and selected by Darryl Pinckney, another novelist and critic who also famously worked with and was friends with Hardwick. I read these stories in a variety of orders, and since they are not part of an intentional collection this blending and mixing up of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: as byatt, chuck palahniuk, elementals, elizabeth hardwick, goodbye mr chips, james hilton, Jess Walter, lyra's oxford, Philip Pullman, snuff, survivor, the new york stories of elizabeth hardwick, we live in water

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:491 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: as byatt, chuck palahniuk, elementals, elizabeth hardwick, goodbye mr chips, james hilton, Jess Walter, lyra's oxford, Philip Pullman, snuff, survivor, the new york stories of elizabeth hardwick, we live in water ·
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“A book is born into a puddle of treacle; the brine of hostile criticism is only a memory.”

January 3, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The header picture of this review is Elizabeth Hardwick talking with her (former) student Darryl Pinckney, also a novelist and critic. He writes the introduction to this collection from the perspective what it was like to be the student of Hardwick. This is exactly the kind of introduction this book needs. She’s a critic to be sure, and a wonderful writer, but she’s not the kind of critic that you find in contemporary literature journals. Her stuff is a little more timeless, written for a […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth hardwick, the collected essays of elizabeth hardwick

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: elizabeth hardwick, the collected essays of elizabeth hardwick ·
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