Return to the Classics: Robin Black discusses MRS. DALLOWAY

We are very excited to welcome scholar and author Robin Black into Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA on Thursday, June 20th at 6pm for a discussion of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Her discussion will kick off our new event series "Return to the Classics." The discussion and will take place on the second floor of the Center City Barnes & Noble.

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About Robin Black:

Robin Black's story collection, If I loved you, I would tell you this was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Story Prize. Her novel, Life Drawing was longlisted for multiple awards, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, among others. An essay collection, Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide came out in 2016, followed by the harder to categorize conversation with a book, Mrs. Dalloway, Bookmarked in 2022. Robin, who has taught most recently in the Rutgers Camden MFA Program for Writers, lives in Philadelphia with her husband and is at work on a novel. www.robinblack.net

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About Mrs. Dalloway:

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925

In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house for friends and neighbors, she is flooded with remembrances of the past—the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

From the introspective Clarissa, to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park, the characters and scope of Mrs. Dalloway reshape our sense of ordinary life and reshaped English literature as we know it.