Sunday Reading: Adaptations
In 1998, the novelist Michael Cunningham published a short story in The New Yorker about a woman living in postwar Los Angeles who feels dissatisfied with her incomplete marriage. On the day of her husband’s birthday, she peruses Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and starts reflecting on the trajectory of her own life. "A Room at the Normandy" is an excerpt from Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film, in 20...