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Taking a Long Look
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time | Vivian Gornick
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"For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this book illuminates one of the driving (…more)
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I enjoyed this collection of essays and stories by Vivian Gornick, whose writing I deeply admire. Some essays I found rather provocative, others more agreeable, and still more a healthy mix of both. Some of my favorites are “The Reading Group”, “The Americanization of Narcissism”, “On the Bus”, and “Consciousness”, as well as her essays on Herman Melville, Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt and Erich Fromm.

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