Vivian Gornick Audio Books

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence....

A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love....

Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth....

In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom.

In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires....

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.

The Solitude of Self is a profound, distilled meditation on what makes American feminism American from one of the finest critics of our time....

In this newly revised 25th anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists....