Elaine's review
Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Hardwick
this book blew my mind. released as a novel, but tricky in the same way "feather on the breath of god" is - definitely playing with the genre, commenting on it. and the writing is just... wow. no plot, really, but definitely a sense of story and movement; a woman is looking back on her life, and the content shifts and changes as memory does, seemingly without reason but in hindsight with accumulating association and meaning. such a close observer, and an exacting wordsmith.
