[Vwoolf] NYT By the Book

Thu Oct 31 15:01:30 EDT 2019

It's interesting that Aciman would invite three male writers to his dinner--Joyce, Gogol and John Leguizamo--and that the Times felt it necessary to title the entire interview "André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon."

Vara

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Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
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:)  Agreed about how silly Alexander’s book is.  But I figured we shouldn’t blame the father for the sins of the son.  His own remarks on Woolf, however, are fair game!  As I said, very disappointing, since CALL ME BY YOUR NAME and ENIGMA VARIATIONS are gorgeous books, and I’m looking forward to digging into the sequel to the former, called FIND ME, which arrived on my doorstep yesterday.

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Drew Shannon, Ph.D.
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Ah, Alexander v Andre--thank you, Drew--Christine

On 10/31/2019 11:43 AM, Shannon, Drew [School of Arts & Humanities] wrote:

Twitterature is by Andre Aciman’s son, not by Aciman himself.

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Drew Shannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Department of Liberal Arts
Historian / Bibliographer of the International Virginia Woolf Society
Mount St. Joseph University
5701 Delhi Road | Cincinnati, OH 45233-1672
513-244-4541 | Drew.Shannon at msj.edu<mailto:Drew.Shannon at msj.edu>

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I couldn't open the article, but from the headline I imagine him making some statement that roughly accords with his undergraduate (sophomoric?) production Twitterature, in which he and his co-author reduce great books, including Mrs Dalloway, to tweets. Not too sure about the depth and power of his literary skills. The NYT long ago ceased to care about all but contemporary literature.

On 10/31/2019 11:22 AM, Shannon, Drew [School of Arts & Humanities] via Vwoolf wrote:

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…

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Drew Shannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Department of Liberal Arts
Historian / Bibliographer of the International Virginia Woolf Society
Mount St. Joseph University
5701 Delhi Road | Cincinnati, OH 45233-1672
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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

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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:

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