Her memoirs include Fierce Attachments (1987), about her childhood in the Bronx and her lifelong antagonism with her mother, and Approaching Eye Level (1996), a collection of essays about her life as one loner among many in Manhattan. There are moments when she describes her struggles and her failures in love and work with such calm candor it seems that there is nothing about herself that she is afraid to see. Vivian Gornick has written about herself in friendship, in marriage, as a daughter, as a woman living alone in New York, as a writer who has difficulty with writing. Interviewed by Elaine Blair Issue 211, Winter 2014
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