Look back on an article Virginia Woolf wrote for Vogue in 1924. Staff writer emeritus Emily Colette Wilkinson tackles Woolf’s difficult text, To the Lighthouse.
Virginia in Vogue
A Literary Trip
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The Show-and-Tell Tale Heart
“Due to its adult subject matter, it was the first animated film to receive an “X” rating (or “suitable for those aged 16 and over”) in the UK.” Open Culture features a creepily fantastic animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic story “The Tell Tale Heart,” noting that the nearly 8-minute short was voted the 24th greatest animation of all time in a survey of animation professionals. And Poe’s macabre creation made our own list, from earlier this year, of literature’s greatest walls.
Dividing Lines
In spite of the title of her blog post, Lily Meyer doesn’t think Ann Patchett is really an enemy of Zadie Smith. Instead, she thinks the two authors play opposing roles in her life, thanks largely to the different effects their books have on her perceptions. At the Ploughshares blog, she contrasts their novels, using excerpts from White Teeth and Bel Canto. Related: Kevin Charles Redmon’s review of Patchett’s novel State of Wonder.
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Appearing Elsewhere
The spiffy new Los Angeles Review of Books website has posted my review of Ben Fountain’s new novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.
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The Perils of Being a Hermit
It might not be a good idea to tell this to bookish readers, but it looks like loneliness can kill you.