{"id":74867,"date":"2026-06-10T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=74867"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:54:30","slug":"sub-rosa-june-selection-sleepless-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2026\/06\/10\/sub-rosa-june-selection-sleepless-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub Rosa June Selection: Sleepless Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1028\/9780940322721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74872 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sleepless-nights-jpeg-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"288\">Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick<\/a> is the Sub Rosa Selection for June. The discussion will be held <strong>Saturday, June 20th at 6:30pm.<\/strong> Books are in stock and discounted at 15%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Sleepless Nights<\/em>\u2014a novel of mental weather\u2014enchants by the scrupulousness and zip of the narrative voice, its lithe, semi-staccato descriptions and epigrammatic dash.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Susan Sontag, The New Yorker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Sleepless Nights<\/em> a woman looks back on her life\u2014the parade of people, the shifting background of place\u2014and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick&#8217;s finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This original novel does everything for lost times that an irreplaceable family photograph album does\u2014except that here, the words are worth a thousand pictures.&#8221;<strong> \u2014Philip Roth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalk about exploding expectations of narrative, character, structure in a novel. It\u2019s such a brilliant, strange novel.\u201d <strong>\u2014 Nicole Krauss, The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74873 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hardwick-jpeg-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"256\"><strong>Elizabeth Hardwick<\/strong> (1916\u20132007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick is the Sub Rosa Selection for June. The discussion will be held Saturday, June 20th at 6:30pm. Books are in stock and discounted at 15%. &ldquo;Sleepless Nights&mdash;a novel of mental weather&mdash;enchants by the scrupulousness and zip of the narrative voice, its lithe, semi-staccato descriptions and epigrammatic dash.&rdquo; &mdash;Susan Sontag, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[762,4,25],"tags":[855],"class_list":["post-74867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature-reviews","category-reading","category-reading-group","tag-sub-rosa-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}