Elizabeth Hardwick, Author Modern Library $19 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-75482-1
""The landscapes of fiction: houses and the things therein, nation-states and states of the union, oceans, backland; winter nights and the old horse pulling the sledge through a driving snow, summer heat and the arrival of smothering love affairs,""
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Elizabeth Hardwick, Author Random House (NY) $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-50127-2
Hardwick's latest roundup of literary essays is a gallery of startling portraits. She presents novelist Edith Wharton as a freewheeling social historian who used New York City as a frame of reference in her dissection of American society's...
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Elizabeth Hardwick, Author Viking Books $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-89158-0
The Penguin Lives series is a good one (see review of Rosa Parks, above): casual but serious, artfully rendered criticism that is not hell-bent on footnotes and references,; the slender volumes are produced by critical writers who are also...
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Edited by Darryl Pinckney. New York Review Books, $19.95 trade paper (640p) ISBN 978-168137-154-2
This fine, revealing career retrospective showcases the late Hardwick, a novelist and cofounder of the New York Review of Books, honing her favorite form, the literary review, to razor-sharp precision. Pinckney, her onetime student, has chosen...
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Edited by Saskia Hamilton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $50 (560p) ISBN 978-0-374-14126-4
The push and pull of love and anger course through this riveting collection of correspondence between onetime literary power couple Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick. Beginning soon after Lowell’s move to England, without Hardwick, to teach, the...
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Edited by Alex Andriesse. NYRB Classics, $18.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-68137-623-3
The clever observations of critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) shine in this sharp collection. The essays range from lyrical musings on places Hardwick lived—Kentucky, Maine, and New York—to insights on literature and thoughts on...
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