Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World. From: The Nation | Date: November 16, 1992| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1992 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Two she-condors dominated my pass into literary adulthood in the mid-1960s - one of them was Lillian Hellman, the other Mary McCarthy. McCarthy's The Group hit the best-seller lists soon after it was published in August 1963 and remained on them for nearly two years; by the time I was composing my college application essay to Vassar in the fall of 1964, I had read the bits about the famous pessary several times and was lubricating my prose style (I thought) with plenty of killing derivatives from McCarthy's tube (if not her pen).

My penchant for Hellman, however, was not as ...

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