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...that she's always feral. In fact, Harrison is as fundamentally chatty as Nora Ephron. In this collection she seems to be chatting over morning coffee with her best Greenwich Village friend. Her prose is wicked conversation, full of anecdotes, observations, comic asides, and devastatingly sensible reasoning. But the casual tone conceals a penetrating seriousness. Despite her glibness Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is always driving home a larger point...
...Center is a testimonial to Harrison's triumphant making of herself. From the spiritual and intellectual impoverishment of her early life of religious fanaticism she has reached a hard-won fullness of thought that rejoices in windy open spaces. She revels in true colors now that she's left the harsh imposition of a black-and-white world view behind...
...Harrison has absolutely no patience with the neurasthenic absorption and empty style of Joan Didion--who has been called "America's finest woman prose stylist," but whom Harrison finds "transparently ersatz," and "merely cheap." "All connections are equally meaningful and equally senseless," says Joan of Dark; her nihilism, says Harrison, amounts to amorality. Didion's not entitled to "fiddle while Watts burns," and her disconnection of the suffering soul from any political or spiritual meaning, sorely contrasts with Harrison's crusade to restore those vital, fading links...
...Harrison: "What makes those sentences work: I ask: Cadence I answer. What do those sentences mean...
...When Harrison does a hatchet job or a critical dissection it's clean and scalpel-sharp...