Vivian Gornick
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.”
So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt...
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.
"I sometimes think I was born reading...I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me."
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in
...Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments—hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author's "mesmerizing, thrilling" truths within its pages—has been selected by the publication's book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years.
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about