<div dir="ltr">NYRB should find better reviewers, and it should announce its truer name: New York Review of Each Others' Books.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:34 AM, David Eberly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidmeberly@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidmeberly@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Lit crit goes bigly<br>
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> On May 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Mark Hussey <<a href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net">mhussey@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> "the chilly, concealing shade of her younger sister, Virginia Woolf"--what a<br>
> vixen that Virginia was!<br>
><br>
> "From Parmar's pages Virginia emerges as an aggressive, often hostile,<br>
> malicious sibling, and a compulsive flirt. Although based on a huge inquiry<br>
> into her letters, diaries, and biographies, Parmar's Virginia is a fictional<br>
> character who is "raving mad and running all over the house shouting<br>
> nonsense."    As Trump would say, "people are saying..."  Not me, of course,<br>
> but "some say...".   A "huge inquiry" (whatever that means, beyond reading<br>
> what's there) comes to the same conclusion as so many British patriarchal<br>
> critics and laddish writers have done about VW.  I am shocked. Shocked!<br>
><br>
> And does a review in the prestigious NY Review of Books about three major<br>
> recent exhibitions, plus one of many fictionalized versions of the Stephen<br>
> sisters' lives, and one of myriad recent critical works on Woolf etc. really<br>
> provide evidence that "the attention paid to the Bloomsbury Group seems to<br>
> be waning on both sides of the Atlantic"?<br>
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> Stay tuned.<br>
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> From: Vwoolf [mailto:<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces%2Bmhussey">vwoolf-bounces+mhussey</a><wbr>=<a href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.osu.edu">verizon.net@lists.osu.edu</a>] On<br>
> Behalf Of Steve Posin<br>
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:18 PM<br>
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> Subject: [Vwoolf] The Painter and the Novelist | by Paul Levy | The New York<br>
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