| Elizabeth Hardwick |
What I Got Wrong About Elizabeth Hardwick
Forty years ago, on the barricades for radical feminism, I set out to “prove” she was overrated.
Vivian Gornick
November 17, 2021
It’s a jolt, facing up to the casual pitilessness that can, at times, characterize the work of a book reviewer in the grip of an ideological passion. These days, thanks to the publication of Cathy Curtis’s new biography, A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick, I’m feeling that jolt.