Read two of these and call me in the morning, 06-27-2014
Read Two of These and Call Me In The Morning* 1. Cory Doctorow reviews Thomas Piketty’s* Capital in the 21st Century* This is a crisis. The reason for capitalis...
Tag: Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf on Happiness Among the Plain
Virginia Woolf on people that you might think that she would think plain, and does, but then again, not. This while on holiday visiting some in-laws: a banker a...
Virginia Woolf Takes a Walk, Finds a Novel
In 1905, a year after her father died, Virginia Woolf, then 23, took a vacation with her sister and two brothers near St. Ives, the town along the Cornwall coas...
Virginia Woolf is happy, but not with D.H. Lawrence, not at all
In the fall of 1932, the same year she fell apart in March and fainted in August, Virginia Woolf went on a happy compositional tear in October and November, wri...
Showing Versus Telling: The Art of the Quick Sketch
Young writers are constantly told to show rather than tell. Here, in a sketch of Virginia Woolf’s father in Quentin Bell’s biography of Virginia Woolf, Bell sho...
Uncommon Reading – Eudora Welty on Virginia Woolf on Hemingway
One of the underrated pleasures of the internet is all the old stuff we can now read — goodies that 20 years ago you could read only by going to a major l...
Virginia Woolf Was a Plant Sensitive and Tough
A glorious find for any Virginia Woolf fan. For a Virginia Woolf fan writing a book about a scientifico-botanical metaphor about the nature of sensitivity and f...
The Agony of Editing Virginia Woolf’s Early Journals. Plus Welty on Woolf on Hemingway.
I’m having a rich time bouncing about Virginia Woolf: A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909, edited by Mitchell Leaska. This one-volume c...
How To Pick Apart Great Writing: Joan Didion on Ernest Hemingway
Can you pick apart the magic in a great piece of writing? No — but you can learn a lot trying. Watch Joan Didion, back in 1998 in The New Yorker, do so with one...
How I Write: With Spies, Revolvers, Whiskey, and Luck
The good folks at Matter and Medium asked me how I got started writing and how I write. My answer, which they first ran at Medium (and an enormous photo), is re...