![]() ![]() ![]() On either side of the living room are more books: ceiling-high shelves of histories, fiction, and poetry. Her home is clearly that of a writer constantly at work, and strewn throughout is a lifetime’s accumulation of furniture, objects, paintings, posters, photographs, records, heirlooms, and countless books. Behind the enormous plants and the freestanding tiles, one can see a comforting fixture of urban life: a fire escape. ![]() “Like modern architecture,” she says, “it looks much better in photographs.” The building was designed for artists, and the living room is dominated by a large window. Interviewed by Darryl Pinckney Issue 96, Summer 1985Įlizabeth Hardwick lives on the west side of Manhattan, on a quiet street near enough to Central Park to have heard the crowds and speakers at the great political demonstrations in Sheep’s Meadow. ![]()
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