On her excellent blog, Laila Lalami writes:"The BBC reports that the British Library has digitized some rare recordings of fifty-seven 20th-century writers’ voices. The collection includes the only known recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice (my God, not at all as I had imagined it!). You can also listen to a comment by John Steinbeck about the context and process of writing The Grapes of Wrath. I wish all of the archive were available online, but it’s not."
To listen to Woolf, all 2 minutes, nine seconds of her, click here.
To listen to Steinbeck talk about "the certain angers" that filled him when writing The Grapes of Wrath, click here.
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4 comments:
Fascinating! I heard about this on the radio today, and I must say that you've gotten it up here pretty quickly.
This w-ah-s s-oh cool. Thanks for the post.
Thank you for this beautiful blog. Virginia Woolf is on of my favourite writer and I'm doing a research about her for the university. Her Novels are so beautiful and the short stories, in particular The mark on the wall, too.
Thank you, Stefania!
Woolf's work mean a lot to me too.
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