SHARP

Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm?these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and in tellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes o f the men who often undervalued their work as critics and essayists. These women are united by what Dean terms as sharpness, the a bility to c...[Read more]