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Vivian Gornick

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Vivian Gornick is the author of several books, including the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments, named the best memoir of the past 50 years by the New York Times Book Review in 2019; the essay collections The End of the Novel of Love and The Men in My Life, both of which were nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and The Odd Woman and the City, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She began her career as a staff writer for The Village Voice in 1969, and her work has since appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and many other publications.

Vivian Gornick Books

Still Talking book cover

Still Talking

Lore Segal
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide book cover

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide

Robin D. G. Kelley
Unfinished Business book cover

Unfinished Business

Vivian Gornick
Journey from the North book cover

Journey from the North

Storm Jameson
The Best American Essays 2023 book cover

The Best American Essays 2023

Vivian Gornick
The Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) book cover

The Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Emma Goldman
Taking A Long Look book cover

Taking A Long Look

Vivian Gornick
The Mermaid and The Minotaur book cover

The Mermaid and The Minotaur

Dorothy Dinnerstein
Enchantment book cover

Enchantment

Daphne Merkin
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives book cover

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

Diane Johnson
The Romance of American Communism book cover

The Romance of American Communism

Vivian Gornick
Approaching Eye Level book cover

Approaching Eye Level

Vivian Gornick
The End of the Novel of Love book cover

The End of the Novel of Love

Vivian Gornick
Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World book cover

Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

Nancy C. Atwood
After Montaigne book cover

After Montaigne

David Lazar
The Odd Woman and the City book cover

The Odd Woman and the City

Vivian Gornick
The Men in My Life book cover

The Men in My Life

Vivian Gornick
The Solitude of Self book cover

The Solitude of Self

Vivian Gornick
Fierce Attachments book cover

Fierce Attachments

Vivian Gornick
How I Found America book cover

How I Found America

Anzia Yezierska
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