The Intimate Ones

In the 1960 novel The Intimate Ones, Bonnie Golightly delves into the slowly unraveling lives of three young New York City grifters with biting humor, deep insight, and striking empathy, particularly for the societal cruelty toward young women. Golightly is an antecedent of such contemporary novelists as Ottessa Moshfegh and Halle Butler.

This edition of The Intimate Ones contains a rare profile of Bonnie Golightly based in part on an extensive interview conducted with her shortly before he...