Volume 39, Number 6 · March 26, 1992
Mary McCarthy in New York
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Intellectual Memoirs: New York 1936–38.[1] I look at the title of these vivid pages and calculate that Mary McCarthy was only twenty-four years old when the events of this period began. The pages are a continuation of the first volume, to which she gave the title How I Grew. Sometimes with a sigh she would refer to the years ahead in her autobiography as 'I seem to be embarked on how I grew and grew and grew.' I am not certain how many volumes she planned, but I had the idea she meant to go right down the line, inspecting the troops you might say, noting the slouches and the good soldiers, and, of course, inspecting herself living in her time.
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