Brief biogrpahy of Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), American novelist, political activist and critic, best known for The Group.

About the Book "A Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times."-- Book Synopsis A Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times. Review Quotes 2022 Honorable Mention for the Foreword INDIES in Short Stories 2022 WNBA Great Group Reads Selection Buzzfeed, "16 Upcoming Books From Indie Presses You'll Love" The American Book Fest "Best Book" Award Finalist for Fiction: Short Story "[An] engaging debut...marked by surprising encounters and poignant reflections." --Publishers Weekly "In these eight stories, Campbell spins tales of isolation that range from the desperate to the profound, and her clear prose cuts through the trepidation her characters often feel. A meaningful and utterly devastating collection that cements Campbell as a leading short story writer." --"16 Upcoming Books From Indie Presses You'll Love," Buzzfeed "[A] remarkable collection--every story a deep dive well worth taking." --San Francisco Chronicle, online and print "You'll remember its vivid imagery and smart turns of phrase." --Stanford Magazine "These stories, ambitious in scope, at once gritty and lavishly told, set a clear-eyed beam on their characters, and in prose as careful as it is exact, Campbell taps that fierce instinct to regenerate, and show us how ash sparks life." --LitStack, online "History and memory crosscut through The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs in a gorgeous weave. These are marvelous, stirring stories, sometimes sexy, sometimes harrowing, somehow both timeless and timely. Campbell writes with great depth, patience, wisdom, and beauty."--Anthony Doerr, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See "The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs, Leslie Kirk Campbell's prize-winning debut collection of eight stories, is distinguished by the range and diversity of the stories. The seemingly effortless invention of compelling characters entangled in unpredictable situations lends this book a vibrancy and vitality that's at once sophisticated and utterly natural. And though this is a collection of individual stories, there's an underlining drive of an intense single voice that gives this book a memorable force."--Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow and author of Paper Lantern: Love Stories "Leslie Kirk Campbell's stories feature protagonists whose wisdom and wit and tenderness and patience and openness to existence cannot save them from trauma or anxiety or longing or the manic duplicities of love. These stories are masterful on the impossibility of negotiating implacably contradicting desires, and on the indivisibility of the personal and the political. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is a superbly accomplished and assured debut."--Jim Shepard, author of The World to Come and Phase Six "Leslie Kirk Campbell's stories immerse you into a complete and layered world where her characters are suspended between self-destruction and rebirth. Hypnotic, strange, and lovely."--Michelle Wildgen, author of Bread and Butter and You're Not You About the Author Leslie Kirk Campbell's short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares Solos and won awards at Arts & Letters, Southern Indiana Review, Briar Cliff Review and The Thomas Wolfe Review. The author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead), Leslie is the mother of two grown sons and teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco.

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This year marks the hundredth birthday of both Mary McCarthy and John Cheever, two celebrated New Yorker writers. Mary McCarthy’s fiction first appeared …

Title: The Group Author: Mary McCarthyPublisher: Penguin BooksPublication Date: 1966Format: SoftcoverCondition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear, endpaper inscription and tanned pages. Reader's note This vintage Penguin paperback is a 1966 edition of The Group by Mary McCarthy. This is the runaway best-selling story of eight eager, innocent girl graduates starting life in 1933 - pioneering their way from sex and interior décor to cooking and contraception. Kenneth Allsop gives this book a great review: 'Outrageous, outspoken, outsmarting and outstripping all other fiction on the course for high-octane performance.' See if this book matches up this review!

This is Mary McCarthy, , American writer, and author of The Group. She was once married to Edmund Wilson.

The 1963 Mary McCarthy novel shocked a generation. Laura Jacobs on how it continues to inspire—even after it blighted the author’s life.

I heartily recommend Mary McCarthy's "Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man," one of the stories in The Company She Keeps. It's not nearly as well known as her "Man in the Brooks Brother Shirt," buit it is excellent in just the same way. Here's a little taste. -- DL << The inconsistencies he found whenever he examined his own thoughts troubled him a good deal. He found, for example, that he liked to drink and dance and go to medium-smart night clubs with medium-pretty girls. Yet he believed with Veblen that there was no greater folly than conspicuous consumption, and his eyes and ears told him that people were hungry while he had money in his pocket..This was a problem all well-to-do radicals had to face, and there were any number of ways of dealng wth it. You could stop being a radical, or you could give your money away. Or you could give a little of it away and say, "I owe something to myself," or give none of it away and say, "I'm not a saint, and besides I have something more important than money to contribute." >>

Mary McCarthy, an American writer, who was once married to Edmund Wilson is shown here. She is the author of The Group.

About the Book A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group. Book Synopsis A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group.Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayist and fiction writer Mary McCarthy offers a unique history of Florence, from its inception to the dominant role it came to play in the world of art, architecture, and Italian culture, that captures the brilliant Florentine spirit and revisits the legendary figures--Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and others--who exemplify it so iconically. Her most cherished sights and experiences color this timeless, graceful portrait of a city that's as famous as it is alluring.

From her Partisan Review days to her controversial success as the author of The Group, to an epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy brought a nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life. Dubbed by Time as \"quite possibly the cleverest woman America has ever produced,\" McCarthy moved in a circle of ferociously sharp-tongued intellectuals--all of whom had plenty to say about this diamond in their midst. Frances Kiernan's biography does justice to one of the most controversial American intellectuals of the twentieth century. With interviews from dozens of McCarthy's friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries, Seeing Mary Plain is rich in ironic judgment and eloquent testimony. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2000 and a Washington Post Book World \"Rave\".

This is Mary McCarthy, , American writer, and author of The Group. She was once married to Edmund Wilson.

Chris Kraus reflects on Mary McCarthy’s reading, in November 1963, from her novel ‘The Group.’

Virago proudly unveils a fresh addition to its Virago Modern Classics Designer Collection. This collection stands as a tribute to powerful and revolutionary literary works by female authors. And no…

Title: The Group Author: Mary McCarthyPublisher: Penguin BooksPublication Date: 1966Format: SoftcoverCondition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear, endpaper inscription and tanned pages. Reader's note This vintage Penguin paperback is a 1966 edition of The Group by Mary McCarthy. This is the runaway best-selling story of eight eager, innocent girl graduates starting life in 1933 - pioneering their way from sex and interior décor to cooking and contraception. Kenneth Allsop gives this book a great review: 'Outrageous, outspoken, outsmarting and outstripping all other fiction on the course for high-octane performance.' See if this book matches up this review!