The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

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There “had been room for decline … and the opportunity has been taken.” Sunday mornings with the book reviews is “a dismal experience.” She was just getting started. “The flat praise and the faint dissension, the minimal style and the light little article, the absence of involvement, passion, character, eccentricity—the lack, at last, of the literary tone itself—have made The New York Times into a provincial literary journal.” (Location 150)