Fall is in the air, which means it's time for a change—at least according to the author's in this month's crop of new releases. October's new books bring genre-shifts from best-selling authors, Pulitzer Prize-winners experimenting with form, and a treasure trove of unexpected material for every kind of reader.
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Serious readers, writers, and literary critics (or those who aspire to be)—add this to your “must” list. Spanning much of acclaimed author and literary critic Hardwick’s sixty-year career, this posthumous collection of essays gathers work from the New York Book Review co-founder’s archives, from her studies on writers like Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Edith Wharton to musings on the state of American literary criticism, which seem just as current now as they did half a century ago.
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, $20, amazon.com on October 17. Shop
