Above: MM with William Buckley Jr. (1971) Excerpt from Firing Line
Mary McCarthy on The Jack Paar Show (11 Nov 1963 | Minute 9:04)
Mary McCarthy on The Dick Cavett Show (8 Aug 1969)
Mary McCarthy joins Duke Ellington on The Dick Cavett Show to chat about her experience living in Paris, from hating it to loving it.
Mary McCarthy with William Buckley Jr. (1971)
Excerpt from Firing Line
"The Vassar Girl" 1933-1974 (1974)
Mary McCarthy '33 describes the college as it was when she was a student in contrast to Vassar in 1974. Produced in 1974 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the 26-minute program includes a discussion with a group of students about the political climate of the early '70s as well as McCarthy's analysis of Watergate.
Mary McCarthy on The Dick Cavett Show (8 Aug 1969)
American novelist Mary McCarthy describes her recent trip to Paris as well as how she responds to negative feedback from critics or the public.
CBS Interview at Vassar (1985)
A brief snippet of a CBS interview with Mary McCarthy on the Vassar campus in 1985
Novelist Thomas Mallon on why we need Mary McCarthy more than ever.
Mary McCarthy on The Dick Cavett Show (8 Aug 1969)
A Discussion with Al Alvarez, Art - Representation and Freedom (1982)
Other Press
“She Had Been Registered for Vassar at Birth,” a poem by Carl Landauer published in Exacting Clam (Summer 2025)
Tim Youd Retyping The Group at Vassar College (2018)
• Post45: Norman Mailer and "The Mary McCarthy Case" Revisited
• Bookforum: For Vassar or Poorer: Mary McCarthy’s portrait of Depression-era women graduates
• Ivy Style: The Man In The Brooks Brothers Shirt
• Duke University Press: “Marked for Demolition”: Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam Journalism