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The Romance of American Communism
"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and …
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial …
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A …
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale …
The Best American Essays 2023
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick.Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selects twenty essays out …
Den odde kvinnen og byen
«Nå», begynner jeg. «Hvordan er livet for tiden?» «Som et kyllingbein jeg har satt i halsen», sier han. «Jeg klarer ikke å svelge det, og jeg klarer ikke å hoste det opp. Akkurat …
The Men in My Life
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate …
Heftige bånd
New York, 1980-tallet. En voksen datter og hennes aldrende mor vandrer opp og ned på langs og på tvers i byens gater. De snakker, krangler og minnes datterens oppvekst i en …
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments--hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author's "mesmerizing, thrilling" truths within its pages--has been selected by the …
Approaching Eye Level
Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick's Approaching Eye Level is a brave …
Fierce Attachments
Taking A Long Look
For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and …