Is it telling that I was always more interested in the amateurs? When I think about the literary depictions of artists I liked best, they tend to share certain qualities: frustrated effort, a willf…
The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — all tho…
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In August 1922, Virginia Woolf turned to a blank page in one of her notebooks to take a few notes on “a book to be called,…
