On Friendship: And Other Essays

A new collection of essays-on friendships long and short, on reading and learning, on the life of the mind and the life of the city-built from the experiences and wisdom of the inimitable Vivian Gornick.

In On Friendship: And Other Essays, Vivian Gornick, the beloved, celebrated critic and author of Fierce Attachments, returns with a new collection of essays. Here she writes of friendship-what we understand (and don't) about connection, ourselves, and each other. She writes of her time at th...