Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

"For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this book illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: the painful process of understanding one's self that binds us to the larger world"--

Author: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781839765094
ISBN10: 1839765097
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading

About the Author
Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments--ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times--The Odd Woman and the City, and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, as well as the classic text on writing, The Situation and the Story.