The White Album on Birds of America: “I felt very like the heroine of Mary McCarthy's Birds of America, the one who located America's moral decline in the disappearance of the first course.”
The White Album on The Company She Keeps: “The narrator of Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps could be seen as 'enslaved because she persists in looking for her identity in a man.'”
The White Album on The Group: “Similarly, Miss McCarthy's The Group could serve to illustrate 'what happens to women who have been educated at first-rate women's colleges'”
My Salinger Year on The Group: “...its walls painted black, like that of the filthy communist couple in Mary McCarthy's The Group.”
11/22/63 on The Group: “We read books sitting side by side on her couch, with her fan blowing back our hair—The Group for her, Jude the Obscure for me.”