by Lynne Weiss | Mar 11, 2021 | What I'm Reading
Since I posted yesterday about Virginia Woolf and how A Room of One’s Own made me think of Tillie Olsen’s Silences, I wanted to post Olsen’s biography from the Literary Ladies site today. I remember being moved by Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle and...
by Lynne Weiss | Mar 10, 2021 | What I'm Reading
This posting from Literary Ladies is about Virginia Woolf, but I find myself thinking about Tillie Olsen. I think they were from the same era–perhaps Olsen was a little younger. But of very different economic classes. I don’t think that Woolf was saying...
by Lynne Weiss | Jul 3, 2016 | What I'm Reading
I ran across this while looking for something else. The language is so delightfully fresh and arch. Elizabeth Hands–died in 1815, and although the Poetry Foundation does not date the poem, her book was published in 1789–so who knows? Perhaps this was...
by Lynne Weiss | Mar 15, 2016 | About Me, What I'm Reading
It’s not the only thing I’m reading in 2016 (see above about Lily King’s Euphoria) but I decided that after a lifetime of hearing about Proust and having never read a word of Remembrance of Things Past, I would at least give it a try. A friend told...
