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Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick’s most recent book is Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.

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January 6, 2023
MagazineVivian Gornick
Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark
A new biography traces Rhys’s life of self-sabotage, excess, and devotion to art.
November 17, 2021
MagazineVivian 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.
October 9, 2020
MagazineVivian Gornick
The Anti-Social Novelist
A celebrated chronicler of human suffering, John Steinbeck could not abide other people.
May 24, 2019
MagazineVivian Gornick
A Novelist’s Life in America’s Underbelly
Nelson Algren infused his best writing with passionate political conviction.
November 16, 2017
MagazineVivian Gornick
Little House, Small Government
How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.
December 14, 2016
MagazineVivian Gornick
Tied in Knots
The modern marriage is an elaborate feat of performance.
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.

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