Hardwick, Elizabeth.
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On Sylvia Plath (Part 2 of 2)
Actresses Sondra Lowell, Jay MacIntosh, Juliana McCarthy, Constance Pfeiffer, Judith Roberts, Joanne Strauss, and Sherry Tyler read examples of the work of the brilliant and tortured poet who committed suicide at age 30. Actress Dorothy Dells reads the profile by Elizabeth Hardwick from the New York Review of Books which includes an analysis of the…
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On Sylvia Plath
Actresses Sondra Lowell, Jay MacIntosh, Juliana McCarthy, Constance Pfeiffer, Judith Roberts, Joanne Strauss, and Sherry Tyler read examples of the work of writer and poet Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963), who committed suicide at age 30. Actress Dorothy Dells reads the profile by Elizabeth Hardwick from the New York Review of Books which includes an…
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New York, capitol of the 20th century / Elizabeth Hardwick
Novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick presents “New York, Capitol of the 20th Century” at the UCLA English Department’s annual Ewing Lecture, April 21 and 22, 1981. The talk was presented in two parts on KPFK. In part one, “Pastoral memories,” Hardwick discusses the images of “Old New York” in 19th century American writing. This part…
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New York, capitol of the 20th century (Part 2 of 2): demolition / Elizabeth Hardwick
New York Capitol of the 20th Century was a lecture given by Elizabeth Hardwick. In this second of the two-part essay, “Demolitions,” novelist and critic Hardwick discusses the contemporary “Manhattanism” of a life totally fabricated by man- a culture of instability- in which the ideal of consumption unites, tragically, the rich and the poor. Delivered…