Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FICTION 1 -1 876, Vidal (4 last week...
...Virginia's marriage to Leonard Woolf. The editors inform us that five more volumes will be published annually from 1975 to reproduce the rest of her correspondence. This first volume is of interest because it covers the years before the Bloomsbury group's heyday and Woolf's major fiction, years which generally receive little attention. It shows that Virginia Woolf was a writer long before Bloomsbury ever came into existence...
...that time, she was already an accomplished writer. Her reviews had been published in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. She had published no fiction, although she had been working on her first novel for six years. Little that is in her letters contributes to an understanding of that first work, The Voyage Out. The editors make a case for certain parallels in characterization and action (the death of both Rachel and Thoby, for instance) but such parallels, especially when compared to those in Woolf's later novels To the Lighthouse and The Years, are quite tenuous...
...Maysles say that Grey Gardens is not a documentary--they prefer to call it "a non-fiction film." The documentary medium tends to imply that the camera is neutral, passive, recording life exactly as it reveals itself in front of the lenses. This pretense is discredited somewhat by the suspicion that people behave differently under the eye of the camera than they would otherwise. No such claims are implicit in the style of Grey Gardens--both of the main characters direct their attention, words, and action toward the camera. But one doesn't get the sense that the Beales' "performances...
...Stark says he intends to stay with the campaign until the general election. Afterwards, he says he hopes to go to law school and practice in the deep South, at some place like the Southern Poverty Law Center. Stark says he also wants to continue writing, "maybe poetry or fiction--not on political topics...