Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy: The Writer and Her Work, Vol. 70 Book

	A Note to Readers
1	Living and Reading	3
2	Of Academics and Intellectuals	9
3	A Glint of Malice	17
4	Our Leading Bitch Intellectual	27
5	Terrorists, Artists, and Intellectuals	35
6	"Knowing Concerns Me": The Female Intellectual and the Consumer Idiom	43
7	Nicola Chiaromonte, the politics Circle, and the Search for a Postwar "Third Camp"	55
8	Reimagining Politics	61
9	The Left Reconsidered	69
10	"A Very Narrow Range of Choice": Political Dilemma in The Groves of Academe	77
11	Reluctant Radical: The Irish-Catholic Element	87
12	The Uses of Ambivalence: Mary McCarthy's Jewish Politics	99
13	The Stink of Father Zossima: The Medical Fact in Mary McCarthy's Fiction	107
14	Frigid Women, Frozen Dinners: The Bio-Politics of "Tyranny of the Orgasm"	121
15	Damn My Stream of Consciousness	129
16	A Single Truth, but Tell It Sharp	137
17	Mary McCarthy as a Fictional Character	151
18	The Minotaur as Mentor: Edmund Wilson's Role in the Career of Mary McCarthy	157
19	My Secret Sharer	169
20	Just the Facts, Ma'am, and Nothing but the Facts: A Biographer's Reminiscence	175
21	No Stone Unturned: Contracts and Nymphets	183
22	Taking Risks	191
23	Memories of Another Catholic Girlhood	195
24	Remembrances of an Old Friend	201
	Bibliography	205
	Index	213
	About the Editors and Contributors	221