The Thunderclap Series #9: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This week’s “ Thunderclap ” book isn’t actually a book. It’s a play:

I first encountered Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in high school. All the texts we studied in my Critical Writing class – Animal Farm, The Chosen, Brave New World, Merchant of Venice – impacted me deeply, but Woolf left the deepest mark. 

I almost didn’t finish it. We were reading it aloud in class, you see, and the content – both language and subject matter – is incredibly “mature”. It wa...