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Virginia Woolf radically transformed the novel of manners, a form defined by a domestic setting, limited emotional range, and the centrality of social codes. Woolf expanded this to include the whole range of human experience, partly through the use of shifting interior voices who meditate on art, ma...

This new edition features a new foreword by the author setting O’Keeffe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur Macmahon. It also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist.

The story of two encounters—one in life, the other on the page. Read at The New Yorker

link: By the Book: Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun

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Virginia Woolf and Roxana Robinson

Column by Mary Norris, called “A Quid Pro Quo Mystery”

Letter to The New York Times: Please stop using “Quid Pro Quo.”

“The Rivalry between Ida and Georgia O’Keeffe,” in The New Yorker

The books listed here are written by talented authors who have crafted poignant stories full of compelling characters and thought-provoking plots.