"Passing, glimpsing, everything seems accidentally but miraculously sprinkled with beauty."
#VirginiaWoolf Street Hunting: A London Adventure.
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#VirginiaWoolf #literature_ #book #modernist #translation #novel #editorial #narrative #savebirkbeck
We had a fine Five College Seminar in the #History of the #Book this past week, as Josh Lambert (Wellesley) discussed his new book, _The Literary Mafia: #Jews, #Publishing, & Postwar American #Literature_ (Yale U. Press, 2022: ). But if you missed it, you can read this interview:
"What was the #Jewish ‘literary mafia’? A new book explores a common myth of postwar publishing," JTA, 26 July 2022 https://www.jta.org/2022/07/26/culture/what-was-the-jewish-literary-mafia-a-new-book-explores-a-common-myth-of-postwar-publishing?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-46621-32455
Next post: more on our #BookHistory series
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