Alex's Writing Group Weekly Recap

Harwick, Didion, Ferrante, Spolin, Machado, Sontag, and Zadie Smith.

Jan 21

Started off our first session of the week with Joan Didion’s intro to Elizabeth Hardwick’s Seduction and Betrayal.

Didion wrote about Hardwick’s critique of the term “lady novelist” and said that “to claim the independence implicit in the act of writing could mean to become like the women she described in Sleepless Nights, left to ‘wander about in …