“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Mary McCarthy
06.21.1912 - 10.25.1989Mary McCarthy was a novelist, literary critic, and cultural commentator. She is best known for her 1963 novel The Group.
"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand."
– Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
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