Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy

EVE STWERTKA was a student of Mary McCarthy's at Bard College, in the late 1940s. She worked as editorial assistant on Partisan Review. Currently she is professor emerita from SUNY Farmingdale, where she taught English and held the position of Asociate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Stwertka writes non-fiction books for children and young adults. She is a trustee of the Mary McCarthy Literary Trust.MARGO VISCUSI worked for eight years as secretary to Mary McCarthy in Paris and is now a trustee of the Mary McCarthy Literary Trust. She has been a writer, editor, and director of communications for three major New York foundations and at UNESCO in Paris. Viscusi has held the positions of Director of Publications at Hunter College and Executive Assistant to the President of the New York Public Library. She is a founder and current president of Poets House in New York and a director of the Corporation of Yaddo.

• A Note to Readers Of Intellect and Culture Living and Reading, by Thomas Flanagan Of Academics and Intellectuals, by Terry Cooney A Glint of Malice, by Morris Dickstein Our Leading Bitch Intellectual, by Beverly Gross Terrorists, Artists, and Intellectuals, by Margaret Scanlan "Knowing Concerns Me": The Female Intellectual and the Consumer Idiom, by Jill Wacker Questions of Politics and Religion Nicola Chiaromonte, the Politics Circle, and the Search for a Postwar "Third Camp", by Gregory D. Sumner Reimagining Politics, by Harvey Teres The Left Reconsidered, by Alan Wald A Very Narrow Range of Choice: Political Dilemma in The Groves of Academe, by Timothy F. Waples Reluctant Radical: The Irish-Catholic Element, by Stacey Lee Donohue The Uses of Ambivalence: Mary McCarthy's Jewish Politics, by Rhoda Nathan Mind and Body The Stink of Father Zossima: The Medical Fact in Mary McCarthy's Fiction, by Perri Klass Frigid Women, Frozen Dinners: The Bio-Politics of "Tyranny of the Orgasm", by Priscilla Perkins Damn My Stream of Consciousness, by Katie Roiphe Facts in Fiction A Single Truth, But Tell It Sharp, by Mary Ann Caws Mary McCarthy as a Fictional Character, by Thomas Mallon The Minotaur as Mentor: Edmund Wilson's Role in the Career of Mary McCarthy, by Avis Hewitt Biography and Reminiscence My Secret Sharer, by Carol Brightman Just the Facts, Ma'am, and Nothing But the Facts: A Biographer's Reminiscence, by Carol Gelderman Contracts and Nymphets, by Frances Kiernan Taking Risks, by Frances Fitzgerald Memories of Another Catholic Girlhood, by Maureen Howard Remembrances of an Old Friend, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Bibliography Index