Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won't End.
In a clear and evocative style, Vivian Gornick reveals the secret of successfully turning the situation, her term for the raw material of a memoir or an essay, into the “story,” the argument.
Born to New York left-wingers in the 1930s, Gornick’s mom was a former communist organizer and her father died when she was just thirteen. Gornick was a journalist for the Village Voice in the seventies, and has amassed personal essays and literary and cultural criticism to add to her dozen books and counting.Her 1987 memoir Fierce Attachments, a staple in the nonfiction cannon, precipitated.
For Vivian Gornick, one of America’s best literary essayists, re-reading a book that was important to her at an earlier time “is something like lying on the analyst’s couch.
Vivian Gornick's Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essays that finds a quintessentially contemporary woman (urban, single, feminist) trying to observe herself and the world without sentiment, cynicism, or nostalgia. Whether walking along the streets of New York or teaching writing at a university, Gornick is a woman exploring her need for conversation and connection--with.
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 collection of personal essays that finds a quintessentially contemporary woman (urban, single, feminist) trying to observe herself and the world without sentiment, cynicism, or nostalgia.
Vivian Gornick’s tremendous book on the craft of nonfiction writing, The Situation and the Story, is an exemplary resource for writers. In this book, Gornick discusses in great detail the art of writing personal essays and memoir.
In Vivian Gornick’s new book, Unfinished Business, she brings us a celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading and rereading as life progresses.