Come Back in September av Darryl Pinckney

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<p><b>Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.</b><br><br>Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the opportunity to enroll in Elizabeth Hardwick¿s creative writing class at Barnard. It changed his life. When the semester was over, he continued to visit her, and he became close to both Hardwick and Barbara Epstein, Hardwick¿s best friend and neighbor and a fellow founder of T<i>he New York Review of Books</i>.<br><br>Pinckney was drawn into a New York literary world where he encountered some of the fascinating contributors to the <i>Review</i>, among them Susan Sontag, Robert Lowell, and Mary McCarthy. Yet the intellectual and artistic freedom that Pinckney observed on West Sixty-seventh Street could conflict with the demands of his politically minded family and their sense of the unavoida