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Right now, we could all use a little more women in our lives. Here are some essay collections by women to help you get started. 
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A few years ago, Esquire put together a list that keeps rising from the dead like a zombie to haunt the Internet. It embodies the whole mission of that magazine
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For Elizabeth Hardwick, literary criticism had to be up there with its subjects; real literature should elicit criticism worthy of the achievement in question. We got that from her straight off. The kind of modern literary criticism she was talking about—Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, Randall Jarrell, R.P. Blackmur, John Berryman, F.W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy—was as stimulating as the work it was exploring. Then, too, she wanted us to take seriously the essay as a form. The American essay—Thoreau, Emerson—was an important part of American history.
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The essayist Darryl Pinckney’s most recent book is a novel, Black Deutschland. He is the editor of The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick. (October 2017)
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October 5, 2017 1:52 PM
The essayist Darryl Pinckney’s most recent book is a novel, Black Deutschland. He is the editor of The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick. (October 2017)
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Why isn’t there a genre dedicated to the coming-of-age stories of creatives, a bildungsroman for artists? There are certainly enough books to compile a canon — Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be…
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