Back in 2008, Patti Smith kicked off an exhibition with a reading of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. It may not surprise you to learn that the punk legend, after getting through one sentence, broke into “free improvisation.”
If there is one thing more depressing than reading other people’s old letters it is reading one’s own.
Here’s a rare recording of Ezra Pound reading his work.
“Several critics have already pointed out NW’s debt to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Both novels are concerned with female characters who are lost in their marriages and in their modern worlds. The pace of Smith’s prose, especially in the opening section, is reminiscent of Woolf’s, but in NW Smith creates a rhythm all her own.”
- K. Thomas Kahn, “Lamenting the Modern: On Zadie Smith’s NW.”
Whoa.
For some of us—like me—the new online archive of Modernist literary journals is pretty exciting. I mean, how can you resist reading a litmag with a cover like that?
(via Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
