Something a little bit different today, friends! I am bringing you a conversation rather than a written post. This conversation will be part of a series of conversations I have with others about the short stories of Virginia Woolf. I’m very clever, you see, and I’ve engineered a situation where I get to converse with people about one of my favourite writers. It’s a lot of fun (for me, at least).
My guest today is
who writes a newsletter on Substack called About Mountains. We had a great conversation and I’d like to thank Ronald for agreeing to take part.In our chat, we talk a little bit about Ronald’s newsletter and, in particular, a recent post he did on Alexander von Humboldt. You will hear us referring to Humboldt’s remarkable diagram of the plant zones on the volcano, Chimborazo, in the Andes — if you’re interested in having a look, it’s in Ronald’s post.
Our conversation focused on Virginia Woolf’s short story — ‘The Lady in the Looking Glass.’ It’s quite unusual in some ways. If you’d like to read the story first before listening to us talk about it, it’s available free online in the collection: A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. It’s quite short.
After a brief intro from me, my conversation with Ronald starts at about the 3 minute mark. If you are very mercenary in your podcast listening habits and don’t want to hear any small talk — if you are just here for Woolf — our discussion of ‘The Lady in the Looking Glass’ starts at about the 8 minute mark.
My next conversations will be about:
‘Kew Gardens’ (available in the same story collection), and
‘Street Haunting: A London Adventure’ (available at the Yale Review).
So, please feel free to read those stories in advance, if you want.
I hope you enjoy this conversation about ‘The Lady in the Looking Glass’ as much as I did.
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