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Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.Darryl Pinckney, a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of the novels Black Deutschland and High Cotton and of the nonfiction work, Blackballed- The Black Vote and US Democracy (New York Review Books).
How crucial it is to have Hardwick's Collected Essays now. For they are incorruptible. Their intelligence is prodigious, but never boastful. This major American writer dares, inspires, and cajoles us into reading and writing with renewed conviction and resistance to the meretricious. --Catharine R. Stimpson Throughout her . . . career, Hardwick was devoted to pursuing literature as a way of life and finding life in literature. --Kirkus Reviews Elizabeth Hardwick, long recognized as one of the great literary critics of the 20th century, is generously represented by this selection of her eloquent, erudite, chatty, and often very witty essays and reviews, with a warmly sympathetic and informative introduction by Darryl Pinckney. --Joyce Carol Oates This fine, revealing career retrospective showcases the late Hardwick, a novelist and cofounder of the New York Review of Books, honing her favorite form, the literary review, to razor-sharp precision...this book contains ample examples of literary criticism that might be imitated or even matched but not surpassed in its style, insight, and genuine love for literature. --Publishers Weekly Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenberg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay. --The New Yorker Hardwick wrote when she had something to say, and she took her time; the impression of ease is owing strictly to her style. Not a poet, she produced a poet's prose... --The Guardian Elizabeth Hardwick is our most original, brilliant, and amusing critic. Many of these essays are already classics for their insight and style. --Diane Johnson Hardwick has a gift for coming up with descriptions so thoughtfully selected, so exactly right, that they strike the reader as inevitable. --Anne Tyler This fine, revealing career retrospective showcases the late Hardwick, a novelist and cofounder of the New York Review of Books, honing her favorite form, the literary review, to razor-sharp precision...this book contains ample examples of literary criticism that might be imitated or even matched but not surpassed in its style, insight, and genuine love for literature. --Publishers Weekly Elizabeth Hardwick, long recognized as one of the great literary critics of the 20th century, is generously represented by this selection of her eloquent, erudite, chatty, and often very witty essays and reviews, with a warmly sympathetic and informative introduction by Darryl Pinckney. --Joyce Carol Oates Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenberg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay. --The New Yorker Among twentieth-century literary essayists, only Virginia Woolf has created comparable likenesses. --Joyce Carol Oates Hardwick wrote when she had something to say, and she took her time; the impression of ease is owing strictly to her style. Not a poet, she produced a poet's prose... --The Guardian Elizabeth Hardwick is our most original, brilliant, and amusing critic. Many of these essays are already classics for their insight and style. --Diane Johnson Literature, history, social criticism, and an original and cryptically brilliant intelligence meet in this engrossing--and permanent--collection. --Cynthia Ozick Hardwick has a gift for coming up with descriptions so thoughtfully selected, so exactly right, that they strike the reader as inevitable. --Anne Tyler Elizabeth Hardwick, long recognized as one of the great literary critics of the 20th century, is generously represented by this selection of her eloquent, erudite, chatty, and often very witty essays and reviews, with a warmly sympathetic and informative introduction by Darryl Pinckney. --Joyce Carol Oates Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenberg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay. --The New Yorker Among twentieth-century literary essayists, only Virginia Woolf has created comparable likenesses. --Joyce Carol Oates Elizabeth Hardwick is our most original, brilliant, and amusing critic. Many of these essays are already classics for their insight and style. --Diane Johnson Literature, history, social criticism, and an original and cryptically brilliant intelligence meet in this engrossing--and permanent--collection. --Cynthia Ozick Hardwick has a gift for coming up with descriptions so thoughtfully selected, so exactly right, that they strike the reader as inevitable. --Anne Tyler Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenberg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay. --The New Yorker Among twentieth-century literary essayists, only Virginia Woolf has created comparable likenesses. --Joyce Carol Oates Elizabeth Hardwick is our most original, brilliant, and amusing critic. Many of these essays are already classics for their insight and style. --Diane Johnson Literature, history, social criticism, and an original and cryptically brilliant intelligence meet in this engrossing--and permanent--collection. --Cynthia Ozick Hardwick has a gift for coming up with descriptions so thoughtfully selected, so exactly right, that they strike the reader as inevitable. --Anne Tyler
