Tag Archives: Virginia Woolf

The Astonishing Power of a Book about Nothing: Woolf’s “Orlando”

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

I have just finished reading Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography. It is a shocking, confusing, and engaging book. I am reeling from this … well, I’ll call it a novel. And I can say almost nothing about it or it … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged A Room of One's Own, art, C.S. Lewis, culture, feminism, gender, literary criticism, On Stories, Orlando, Theology of Culture, Virginia Woolf | 19 Comments

The 7 Least Popular Posts (That I Still Think Were Pretty Good)

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

It’s fun to make “Best of” lists, like my “7 Super Awesome Posts of 2014.” The poison ivy of the WordPress statistics forest, however, is that you also know what posts were almost completely ignored. Some of these least viewed … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Andrew Garfield, art, Banality of Evil, Charles Williams, creation, creation care, Discworld, evil, Hannah Arendt, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Terry Pratchett, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf | 5 Comments

An Unpublished Foreword to The Great Divorce

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis’ haunting vision of the afterlife, The Great Divorce, began its publication run 70 years ago today. I was once pressed by Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins to name what I thought was Lewis’ best fiction. Lewis himself preferred Perelandra, … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Original Research | Tagged Animal Farm, C.S. Lewis, Camus, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Sartre, The Great Divorce, The Outsider, The Screwtape Letters, To the Lighthouse, unpublished manuscript, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner | 34 Comments

10 Great Quotations for International Literacy Day

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

Some Inspiration for International Literacy Day! Interesting Literature Today is International Literacy Day! What better time, then, to celebrate some of the wisest, wittiest, pithiest, silliest, and most profound things that writers have ever said about literature and reading? The … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorable Quotes, Reflections | Tagged Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas, George R.R. Martin, International Literacy Day, On Writing, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, writing | Leave a comment

What If He Is Actually Evil? Thoughts on the Moncton Murderer

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

In Eastern Canada we have been holding our breath as the RCMP (our national police force) scoured the city of Moncton, New Brunswick for an armed killer on the loose. Witnesses say Justin Bourque ambushed police officers, killing three and … Continue reading →