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A Shortlisting for the Holidays!

The holidays are nearly here, and I don’t know about you, but I have some major gift wrapping to do yet. Thanks to all of you who reached out to me about my newest book coming soon, Southern-Fried Woolf, (out January 2023), being longlisted for the Page 100 Competition. I’m happy to share that itContinue reading “A Shortlisting for the Holidays!”

Mrs. Dalloway Sighting

Here’s a little holiday time reading about Mrs. Dalloway, via the New York Times Books Update, just for you. I know, I know: we’re reading Orlando. But I thought you’d enjoy this piece by Micheal Cunningham, author of The Hours. Santa brought me an armload of books I’m eager to taste, but I was inContinue reading “Mrs. Dalloway Sighting”

Ordinary Mysteries

This is one of my favorite passages in Lighthouse. As a human, this has always been my goal, to pay attention to the ordinary moments of beauty and to elevate them. At the funeral for my husband’s grandmother a few years ago, the minister came around beforehand and asked for memories to share. I wasContinue reading “Ordinary Mysteries”

To Be Continued…

You may or may not have noticed that I’m a wee bit behind on the posts. Important, unexpected extended family business needed tending to and while I meant to post a lovely photo of Woolf earlier today, I couldn’t even manage that without frustration. I knew you’d forgive me. But give me some time (aContinue reading “To Be Continued…”

Recording of Virginia Woolf

Here’s a link to the only known surviving recording of Woolf’s voice, a slice of the recording animated in commemoration of Woolf’s passing 75 years before, the animation commissioned in 2016. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160324-the-only-surviving-recording-of-virginia-woolf

Mr. Dalloway

If you haven’t heard of the novella Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott and you’re a Woolf fan at all, do yourself a favor and order it. Now. Full disclosure: he was my writing mentor for two semesters in grad school. I begged the person in charge of assigning mentors to let me work with him.Continue reading “Mr. Dalloway”

Mrs. Dalloway Would Buy the WHAT Herself?

Okay, I promised to talk more about the opening line of Mrs. Dalloway: “Mrs. Dalloway said would buy the flowers herself.” Would you believe Woolf wrote a short story called “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” with a similar but different first line? “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself.” (It’s so similar IContinue reading “Mrs. Dalloway Would Buy the WHAT Herself?”

Mrs. Dalloway and the Pandemic

“Mrs. Dalloway said would buy the flowers herself.” If you know anything at all about the novel, you know its opening line. But have you ever paid attention to the early lines that reveal that Clarissa was sick with influenza and possible heart damage as a result? Just what “influenza” are we talking about? There’sContinue reading “Mrs. Dalloway and the Pandemic”