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Village Reads: "The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick". Session 2

Readers & Writers in Conversation.

From The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick:

  • “Boston” (1959)

  • “Bartleby in Manhattan” (1981) 

  • “The Genius of Margaret Fuller” (1986)

Special Guest: Phillip Lopate is a professor of writing at Columbia University’s MFA program, a prolific writer of literary nonfiction, and renowned editor of several anthologies including The Art of the Personal Essay, Writing New York, and most recently The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970, which includes Hardwick’s 1959 essay “Boston.”

Request copies from Compass Rose Books in Castine.