MEMBER BLOG TAG: new york stories
| Monday, April 26, 2010 2:00PM | | | | Pinckney on Hardwick | Tags: Darryl Pinckney, Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Stories
| | | | Darryl Pinckney's brilliant essay on Elizabeth Hardwick in the current New York Review of Books whetted my appetite for Thursday night's "New York Stories" event at the Morgan Library. Here's a splendid passage from Pinckney: "What transfixed Hardwick about Renata Adler's Speedboat (1976) was her narrator's indifference to anything other than her own perceptions. Invovlement with a critical self suited the life of the single woman." I especially cherish the notion of a narrator's "indifference to anything other than her own perceptions." This might not be the governing aesthetic of the publishing industry at the moment, but it's a fine governing aesthetic for the serious novelist. | | | | | |
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