Mary McCarthy’s The Group Turns 60

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Join us as we discuss Mary McCarthy’s best-known work, The Group, published in 1963. An instant hit, it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years and follows eight friends over the course of seven years following their graduation from Vassar College in 1933. It was banned in Australia, Ireland, and Italy for its frank discussion of topics ranging from sex and contraception to lesbianism and mental illness.
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Norman Mailer’s review of The Group (nybooks.com/articles/1963/10/17/the-mary-mccar…)
Trailer for Sidney Lumet’s film adaptation of The Group (youtube.com/watch?v=u6LQYmp0wpw)
Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City (amazon.com/Sex-City-Candace-Bushnell/dp/044661…)
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Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 138 on Ursula Parrott’s Ex Wife (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/138-ursula-parrott…)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 10 on A Falling Out Among Friends (Willa Cather’s feud with Dorothy Canfield Fisher) (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/a-falling-out-amon…)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 159 on Verbal Faux Pas and Mondegreens (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/159-verbal-faux-pa…)
Vassar Daisy Chain (vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/vassar-traditions/da…)
Mary McCarthy’s The Group (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Group_(novel))
The Groves of Academe (amazon.com/Groves-Academe-Mary-McCarthy/dp/015…)
The Company She Keeps (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_She_Keeps_(n…))
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (amazon.com/Memories-Catholic-Girlhood-Mary-McC…)
The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mary-mccarthy-…)
Feud with Lilian Hellman (newyorker.com/magazine/2002/12/16/lillian-mary…)
Imaginary Friends by Nora Ephron (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Friends_(play))

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