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offers a tender and unvarnished glimpse of two cultural milieus * Vanity Fair * A wise, rueful reflection on a lost milieu but an ever more present and essential writer. * Irish Times * Dreamlike and gossipy, this beautifully written memoir of reading, writing and partying in 1970s New York is supremely smart and enjoyable. * Daunt Books * An elegant, intriguing pleasure * The Times * It is the intelligent, elegant, gossipy book on Hardwick I have been waiting for since I read Pinckney's letters to the author. -- Lauren Aimee Curtis * White Review (Book of the Year) * Evocative... freewheeling... like being at a particularly fabulous literary party * The Observer * [A] compelling paeon to a vital, if unlikely, friendship * FT * [A]n intriguing glimpse into a generation of serious intellects * Sunday Business *

offers a tender and unvarnished glimpse of two cultural milieus * Vanity Fair * A wise, rueful reflection on a lost milieu but an ever more present and essential writer. * Irish Times * Dreamlike and gossipy, this beautifully written memoir of reading, writing and partying in 1970s New York is supremely smart and enjoyable. * Daunt Books * An elegant, intriguing pleasure * The Times * It is the intelligent, elegant, gossipy book on Hardwick I have been waiting for since I read Pinckney's letters to the author. -- Lauren Aimee Curtis * White Review (Book of the Year) *

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Darryl Pinckney, a long time contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of novels, Black Deutschland and High Cotton, and the works of nonfiction, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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