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this little girl is going to be a writer
The Men in My Life

IN SCHOOL, THE TEACHER HELD A COMPOsition of mine up to the class when I was eight years old and said, “This little girl is going to be a writer.” At home—where Marx, socialism, and the international working class were articles of faith—my mother pressed my upper arm between two fingers and said, “…

—p.vii The Men in My Life Preface (vii) by Vivian Gornick
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James Baldwin and V. S. Naipaul: America Made the Difference by Vivian Gornick

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Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford: Tenderhearted Men by Vivian Gornick

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Allen Ginsberg: America’s Holy Fool by Vivian Gornick

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Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End of the Jew as Metaphor by Vivian Gornick