From journalist Michelle Dean, winner of the National Book Critics
Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing,
Sharp combines biography, original research, and critical reading
into a powerful portrait of ten writers who managed to make their
voices heard amidst a climate of sexism and nepotism, from the
1920s to the 1990s. Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Mary McCarthy,
Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Janet Malcolm, Renata
Adler, Pauline Kael, and Nora Ephron-these are the main characters
of Sharp. Their lives intertwine. They enable each other and feud,
manufacture unique spaces and voices, and haunt each other. They
form a group united in many ways, but especially by what Dean terms
as 'sharpness', the ability to cut to the quick with precision of
thought and wit, a claiming of power through writing rather than
position. Sharp is a vibrant and rich depiction of the intellectual
beau monde of New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave
out to literary slanging-matches in the pages of publications like
the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books, as well as a
carefully considered portrayal of the rise of feminism and its
interaction with the critical establishment. Sharp is for book
lovers who want to read about their favorite writers, lovers of New
Yorker lore, aspiring writers in New York, those interested in the
history of ideas, and of the fray of 20th century debate-and it
will satisfy them all.
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