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Review: April Bernard on Elizabeth Hardwick
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Review: April Bernard on Elizabeth Hardwick

Dec 28, 2021
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A woman of letters—the phrase suggests simultaneously something stuffy (she is an old-fashioned literary mandarin); something improbable (in Samuel Johnson’s ineradicable insult, she is a dog walking on its hind legs); something triumphant (in Ann Richards’s ineradicable praise, she dances backwards and in high heels); and something silly (she is an alp…

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