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Vivian Gornick
November 17, 2021
Magazine
Vivian Gornick
What I Got Wrong About Elizabeth Hardwick
Forty years ago, on the barricades for radical feminism, I set out to “prove” she was overrated.
May 1, 2020
Magazine
Sophie Pinkham
How Vivian Gornick Reinvigorated Political Writing
Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.
May 23, 2018
Jeet Heer
Philip Roth, the Mandarin Joker
The author blazed a new path for the novel by combining an unbridled, inimitable vernacular with the great themes of postwar American life.
February 20, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Time Is a Feminist Issue
Six writers discuss the so-called generational divide in the #MeToo movement
October 12, 2015
Vivian Gornick
Why I Live Where I Live
Some writers need to go abroad to see home clearly, but New York City has all I need.
April 23, 2015
Laura Marsh
Giving Up on Love
Vivian Gornick and the pursuit of an uncoupled life.
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