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The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick | Elizabeth Hardwick
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Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such asPartisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books—in which it originally appeared. This first collection of Hardwick’s short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to her childhood Kentucky home and discovers the world of difference within her. A girl’s boyfriend is not quite good enough, his “silvery eyes, light and cool, revealing nothing except pure possibility, like a coin in hand.” A magazine editor’s life falls strangely to pieces after she loses both her husband and her job. Individual lives and the life of New York, the setting or backdrop for most of these stories, are strikingly and memorably depicted in Hardwick’s beautiful and razor-sharp prose.
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#OnThisDay in 1916 American literary critic, essayist, and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick was born in Lexington KY. Hardwick burst into the public sphere with a piece in Harper's in 1959 "The Decline of Book Reviewing", applying harsh criticism to the periodicals of the day. Three years later Hardwick, along with Robert Lowell, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, and Robert B. Silvers founded The New York Review of Books. #HistoryGetsLIT

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I love everything about the NYRB covers except.....who signed off on the horrible mis-aligned/rotated "NYRB" stamps?? This annoys me every time I look at my (otherwise much loved) stack!
So glad #uglycover has given me a chance to rant about this. ??

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DebinHawaii Rant understood! That would bug me too. 😬 8y
brendanmleonard Haha I love NYRB and I never noticed this! Now I can't unsee! 8y
BooksCatsMaine If it were just horiz/vertical it would be one thing but ALSO not in line?! 🙀🙀 8y
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