Come Back In September Av Darryl Pinckney

<p><b>WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023</b><br><b>A <i>Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year</i></b><br><b><br>Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.</b><br><br>At the start of the 1970s, Darryl Pinckney arrived in New York City and at Columbia University and enrolled in Elizabeth Hardwick''s writing class at Barnard. After he graduated, he was welcomed into her home as a friend and mentee, and he became close with Hardwick and her best friend, neighbor, and fellow founder of <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, Barbara Epstein. Pinckney found himself at the heart of the New York literary world. He was surrounded by the great writers of the time, like Susan Sontag, Robert Lowell, and Mary McCarthy, as well as the overlapping cultural revolutions and communities that swept New York: the New Wave in film, r