With the rise in vogue of literary festivals, here are some tips for authors about reading work aloud in public Prepare your welcome Those first moments when you walk out on stage can feel very scary, and the last thing you want is to communicate those nerves to an audience. When you get to the mike, make a point of …
Public and private
This month took me to New York for the US launch of Vanessa and Virginia. While I was there I contributed to a round table discussion about Virginia Woolf. The other panelists included Ruth Gruber, who wrote the first Ph. D. on Virginia Woolf in the 1930s. Ruth (now 97) described tea with Virginia and Leonard Woolf in their London …


