Long before polyamory became one of the most searched terms on Google, English novelist Virginia Woolf was living the consensual, non-monogamous life with husband Leonard Woolf in the 20th century. It's a relationship in which you're open to experiencing love in different forms with different people. American author Ernest Hemingway, on the other hand, was grappling with the harsh reality of being friendzoned, where you are no longer a dating option. How do we know this? Through their letters. And now, after months of digging into doggy-eared literary texts, the folks behind Readings in the Shed will present these curated exchanges on February 14 at the NCPA.

Nikhil Katara, Curator