The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The first-ever collection of 50+ writings from the 20th-century critic who “redefined the possibilities of the literary essay”—including works not seen in print for decades ( The New Yorker ) Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question.   In the essays collected here, she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where