It’s also about Hardwick, her life and work and stewardship of Robert Lowell’s work after his death and about their milieu of critics, poets, and novelists.
Where to start? Well, Come Back in September (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is about Pinckney’s longtime friendship with Elizabeth Hardwick, which began during his student years at Columbia in the early 1970s, when he took a poetry class across the street with her at Barnard. Nors not only describes this wild place but reads it, animating its essence as if to give the landscape a voice of its own.ĭarryl Pinckney, Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, ManhattanĬonsummate essayist and novelist Darryl Pinckney’s lively and layered memoir has so much going on-any given page is rich with anecdotes, insights, and searching questions-that it eludes a quick summary. We accompany Nors through A Line in the World (Graywolf) as she journeys up and down the frigid and rugged coastline, across blustery sand spits, along beaches carved by the roiling sea, and into the fog-hued, thinly populated villages that dot its shores. In this collection of illuminating essays Danish writer Dorthe Nors explores the untamed, tumultuous North Sea coast of Denmark where she was raised and to which she returns to make her home some forty years later.
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