[Vwoolf] The Painter and the Novelist | by Paul Levy | The New York Review of Books

[Dianne Hunter]

NYRB should find better reviewers, and it should announce its truer name:
New York Review of Each Others' Books.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:34 AM, David Eberly <davidmeberly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lit crit goes bigly
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On May 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > "the chilly, concealing shade of her younger sister, Virginia
> Woolf"--what a
> > vixen that Virginia was!
> >
> > "From Parmar's pages Virginia emerges as an aggressive, often hostile,
> > malicious sibling, and a compulsive flirt. Although based on a huge
> inquiry
> > into her letters, diaries, and biographies, Parmar's Virginia is a
> fictional
> > character who is "raving mad and running all over the house shouting
> > nonsense."    As Trump would say, "people are saying..."  Not me, of
> course,
> > but "some say...".   A "huge inquiry" (whatever that means, beyond
> reading
> > what's there) comes to the same conclusion as so many British patriarchal
> > critics and laddish writers have done about VW.  I am shocked. Shocked!
> >
> > And does a review in the prestigious NY Review of Books about three major
> > recent exhibitions, plus one of many fictionalized versions of the
> Stephen
> > sisters' lives, and one of myriad recent critical works on Woolf etc.
> really
> > provide evidence that "the attention paid to the Bloomsbury Group seems
> to
> > be waning on both sides of the Atlantic"?
> >
> > Stay tuned.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu]
> On
> > Behalf Of Steve Posin
> > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:18 PM
> > To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> > Subject: [Vwoolf] The Painter and the Novelist | by Paul Levy | The New
> York
> > Review of Books
> >
> >
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