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Words and Worlds
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In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition, the good fortune of forming close relationships with other writers and editors and great thinkers, including Robert Silver of The New York Review of Books, the poet James Merrill, and the illustrator, Edward Gorey. On this fascinating journey, we are amused by her insightful, often delightfully funny meditations on topics such as “deconstruction” and beloved children’s literature series such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, and Babar. Words and Worlds is a crowning reminiscence from a much beloved and celebrated writer.
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“Lurie, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs, is an English professor Cornell University. Here she collects reflections on being a writer, feminism (her essay on women at Radcliffe in the 1940s is especially eye-opening), and fashion. Her love of words comes through it all.
I particularly loved her reflections of people, especially her words on Barbara Epstein, co-editor of the New York Review of Books, and Ted Gorey, of whom she writes, "We began talking and discovered we liked the same books; the only difference was that Ted had already read almost all my favorites, and I hadn’t heard of many of his."
"Our professors were larger-than-life, even heroic figures, who provided not only interpretations of books and events, but dramatic examples of different worldviews and intellectual styles. From among them we and our Harvard contemporaries formed our own views and styles. Clumsily but eagerly we adopted the opinions and imitated the manners of our favorite lecturers."”
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