COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, by Darryl Pinckney Elizabeth Hardwick’s favorite shoes were burgundy suede heels adorned with rhinestone ...

Literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick can be forgiven for being stingy with the facts in "Herman Melville," part of the Penguin Lives series of short biographies. After all, Volume 1 of Hershel ...

“If you want to write,” he said, “you must read Elizabeth Hardwick. ‘Seduction and Betrayal.’” After work I went straight to my local bookstore and purchased a copy of these landmark ...

In 1973, Darryl Pinckney, “a black guy from Columbia across the street,” talked his way into Elizabeth Hardwick’s famed Barnard College writing class. “Come Back in September” is his ...

It was June, 1981. Elizabeth Hardwick was in Castine, the small town in Maine where she’d spent her summers for more than twenty years, since before her daughter, Harriet, was born. Even after ...

Like Renata Adler’s “Speedboat,” Elizabeth Hardwick’s “Sleepless Nights,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Woman Destroyed” or Iris Owens’s “After Claude,” it’s a slender ...

Cathy Curtis begins her new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick with an author’s note meant to head off trouble: This biography of Elizabeth Hardwick includes only as much information about her famous ...

So wrote author and cultural critic William Deresiewicz in “The Quality to be Tragic,” his sharp and insightful essay about Elizabeth Hardwick. Deresiewicz is a writer and thinker I admire, and after ...

Even many people at the top of the profession can’t wholeheartedly recommend it. The critic Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney recalls in his evocative new memoir, “told us that there were ...

“If you want to write,” he said, “you must read Elizabeth Hardwick. ‘Seduction and Betrayal.’” After work I went straight to my local bookstore and purchased a copy of these landmark ...