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Low life

Chatting up Katherine Mansfield

And chasing up the ghosts of Hemingway, Malcolm Lowry, Virginia Woolf and Jack Kerouac

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

I like the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, who according to Virginia Woolf smelt like a civet cat and had a hard, cheap face, and who was the only contemporary writer of whom she was remotely jealous. I like her writing and I like what I read about her short life.

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