The American writer Mary T. McCarthy (1912-1989) wrote novels and short stories as well as reportage, autobiographical essays, theater criticism, political essays, and art history.Mary Therese McCarth...
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Mary McCarthy has made her living and reputation as a writer ever since her graduation from Vassar College in 1933, Phi Beta Kappa key in hand. Beginning with book reviews for Nation and the New Repub...
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"I can remember going to some very, very high-powered and glamorous parties, with her or because of her, at, say, Roger Straus'," recalled the writer Stephen Koch, who became friends with Susan Son...
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Today is Saturday, June 23, the 174th day of 2007. There are 191 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-write...
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Elizabeth Hardwick, a Kentucky-born author and critic whose incisive prose and steady spirit helped her well fulfill her dream of becoming a "New York Intellectual," has died at age 91.Hardwick, wh...
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I don't want to spoil the party, but while everyone's celebrating Deep Throat as if he "solved" Watergate, the real culprit, the perpetrator of the initial crime, the man who actually ordered the W...
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The Roundabout productions currently on offer are a revival at the American Airlines Theatre of John van Druten’s inconsequential 1943 light comedy Old Acquaintance; and at the Laura Pels, Be...
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In his 89 years, Arthur M. Schlesinger was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a Kennedy insider, and an influential thinker who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War."(He had) en...
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John August's "The Nines" plays like an all-grown-up version of August's "Go" _ another intertwined triptych of tales with characters and catchphrases overlapping from one to the next.But it has mo...
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In the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel. "I definitely hope so," he replied.He was a man of lightning wit and great learning. His first nov...
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The etiquette and morality of leaking is not always easy to understand, especially for citizens outside Washington. From the journalistic perspective, almost all leaks are inherently good. From the...
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Mary T. McCarthy
Mary (Therese) McCarthy
Notes on Camp Sontag
