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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#1F497D">How disappointing that Aciman would say such a thing, since he’s a really talented novelist and smart person. I also heard him say disparaging things about Nabokov in his interview
with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm, though his slam of Nabokov doesn’t bother me quite as much as this one does…<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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Drew Shannon, Ph.D.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Associate Professor of English<br>
Department of Liberal Arts<br>
Historian / Bibliographer of the International Virginia Woolf Society </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Mount St. Joseph University<br>
5701 Delhi Road | Cincinnati, OH 45233-1672<br>
513-244-4541 | </span><a href="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue">Drew.Shannon@msj.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623">Please consider the environment before printing this email.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+drew.shannon=msj.edu@lists.osu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kristin Czarnecki via Vwoolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] NYT By the Book<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ah, so much to say about this, including how certain media and literati still revel in taking pot-shots at Woolf. They could have put any snippet in the headline but of course chose this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/books/review/andre-aciman-by-the-book-interview.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/books/review/andre-aciman-by-the-book-interview.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kristin Czarnecki <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">President, International Virginia Woolf Society<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor of English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Georgetown College<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">400 E. College St.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Georgetown, KY 40324<o:p></o:p></p>
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