This collection of essays by a diverse group of young academics, established critics, and well-known writers strikes an intriguing balance between scholarship and reminiscence. The only full-length book on Mary McCarthy that is not a biography, this volume contains discussions of McCarthy as a member of the New York intelligentsia, her search for a just and ethical political philosophy, and the paradox of her views on feminism. The contributors include McCarthy biographers Carol Brightman, Carol Gelderman, and Fran Kiernan; novelists Thomas Flanagan, Maureen Howard, and Thomas Mallon; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Frances Fitzgerald; and critics Morris Dickstein and Katie Roiphe. The book concludes with a moving reminiscence by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"This is a fascinating collection...Highly recommended for all collections." -- Choice
About the Author
EVE STWERTKA was a student of Mary McCarthy's at Bard College, in the late 1940s.
MARGO VISCUSI worked for eight years as secretary to Mary McCarthy in Paris and is now a trustee of the Mary McCarthy Literary Trust.
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New York, Charmed Life, Edmund Wilson, Meg Sargent, The Groves, Hannah Arendt, Partisan Review, Intellectual Memoirs, The Oasis, Philip Rahv, Cold War, Dwight Macdonald, Writing Dangerously, Martha Sinnott, World War, Carol Brightman, Ghostly Father, Carol Gelderman, Clarkson Potter, Roger Straus, Communist Party, Bowden Broadwater, Lillian Hellman, Madame Bovary, Occasional Prose New!
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The company that manufactures T-shirts and sweatshirts with pictures of famous writersJane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolfalso has one with a quotation rather than a face, from Logan Pearsall Smith: "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Charmed Life, Edmund Wilson, Meg Sargent, The Groves, Hannah Arendt, Partisan Review, Intellectual Memoirs, The Oasis, Philip Rahv, Cold War, Dwight Macdonald, Writing Dangerously, Martha Sinnott, World War, Carol Brightman, Ghostly Father, Carol Gelderman, Clarkson Potter, Roger Straus, Communist Party, Bowden Broadwater, Lillian Hellman, Madame Bovary, Occasional Prose New!
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- The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy on 39 pages
- On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy on 23 pages
- A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy on 22 pages
- Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy on 15 pages
- Writing Dangerously by Carol Brightman on 14 pages
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