Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Son of a Witch, recently talked to the Christian Science Monitor about what he was listening to and viewing for entertainment.And reading:
I'm reading a book called Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs. [It's] not a standard biography. ItRead about what Maguire is listening to and watching.concentrates fairly exclusively on what she was thinking and doing as she was writing each one of her major works. You learn a lot about where she was living, who she was talking to, but only in so far as they relate to the work in question. I'm now on a chapter about "Mrs. Dalloway." It's a book-by-book assessment of how a person creates using the material of her life. I admire Virginia Woolf enormously.
--Marshal Zeringue
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