Word: gornick
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...August 29, Morrow will publish "The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage," edited by Cathi Hanauer. The 26 bitches who have written original essays include Ellen Gilchrist, Hope Edelman, Pam Houston, Daphne Merkin, former TIME writer Natalie Angier, Vivian Gornick, Jill Bialosky, Helen Schulman, Chitra Divakaruni, Karen Karbo, Kate Christensen, Elissa Schappell, Veronica Chambers and Susan Squire. According to the publisher, "These essays are the culmination of the lessons of the past two decades - the 'me' years, the therapy years, the years that have taught women to express themselves, feel...
...While Gornick does have trouble turning the critic’s eye inward, she makes up for it with in-depth, critical analysis of some of the most important personal nonfiction of the twentieth century. She splits the writings into two categories: essays, in which the narrator explores a subject through his own relation with it, and memoirs in which the narrator explores herself through some external topic. Her discussion of the writings of Oscar Wilde, Edward Hoagland, Natalia Ginzburg, James Baldwin Orwell and Lynn Darling, among others, is done with the deft hand of an experienced teacher...
...Essay,” feels a bit removed from her theories about the connection between narrator and subject as she focuses so intensely on the works she is analyzing, but Gornick’s perceptive criticism and explication is fascinating nonetheless. In the memoir section, Gornick introduces more of her philosophy on the memoir, its definition and value. “Modern memoir posits that the shaped presentation of one’s own life is of value to the disinterested reader only if it dramatizes and reflects sufficiently on the experience of…movement away from the murk...
...brief but wonderful conclusion to the book Gornick explains her impetus for writing the book after 15 years of MFA programs, her frustration at the overemphasis put on how to write and not why to write. The conclusion even explains her seeming abandonment of her theories on writing for the criticism of other works declaring that “I have learned that you cannot teach people how to write…all that is inborn, cannot be taught-but you can teach people how to read, how to develop judgment about a piece of writing: their own as well...
...Vivian Gornick...