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NYRB & BPL Presents: Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Writers and scholars discuss the first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick‘s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades; moderated by collection editor Darryl Pinckney and co-presented with New York Review of Books.

Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay.  She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her.  She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays about literature, her greatest passion.  For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor.  The continuous attention to language, the structure of observations, the line of interpretation— Hardwick deserves to be read and reread for the clarity of her perceptions and her enduring assessments of literature and society, and simply for the beauty of her writing alone.

Edited and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick gathers more than fifty essays for a retrospective of this writer of moral courage, as Joan Didion called her.  Hardwick’s readings define literature itself.











When: Wed., Oct. 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
718-230-2100
Price: Free
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Writers and scholars discuss the first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick‘s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades; moderated by collection editor Darryl Pinckney and co-presented with New York Review of Books.

Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay.  She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her.  She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays about literature, her greatest passion.  For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor.  The continuous attention to language, the structure of observations, the line of interpretation— Hardwick deserves to be read and reread for the clarity of her perceptions and her enduring assessments of literature and society, and simply for the beauty of her writing alone.

Edited and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick gathers more than fifty essays for a retrospective of this writer of moral courage, as Joan Didion called her.  Hardwick’s readings define literature itself.

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