Come Back in SeptemberCritic 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. At the start of the 1970s, Darryl Pinckney arrived in New York City and at Columbia University and enrolled in Elizabeth Hardwick's writing class at Barnard. After he graduated, he was welcomed into her home as a friend and mentee, and he became close with Hardwick

seven-year old Kara doesn't want to visit her gran because she thinks it will be boring

Tonight there's going to be the party of the decade the brother he hasn't seen for years has just flown in and Rick is all set to do something about Kate Robinson the beautiful girl he just can't get out of his mind

Mother's Day

much less how to study Scripture

and more-on to the shocking closures of the studios that made them

and burned the beards of the rabbis

'A much-needed and balanced history' OBSERVER

Practices include:

Narrating from a 50-year-old sailboat

all the gossip from the One Direction tour bus

a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made

and the people