A volume of short fiction and memoir that reminded the critic Cyril Connolly “of Congreve and Constant, of Elizabeth Bowen and Compton-Burnett or the Cambridge period of Virginia Woolf.”
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A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Miller to Gandhi and the Vassar Girl.
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A collection of McCarthy’s dramatic criticism from Partisan Review and beyond.
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A collection of essays praised by Anthony Burgess for its “acumen, intelligence, clarity, wit and lack of bitchiness.”
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McCarthy remembers her friendships with contemporaries including Philip Rahv, Hannah Arendt, Nicola Chiaromonte.
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