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It’s hard times for charity book sales

Posted in The Mark on the Wall, tagged , on Thursday 18 June 2009| Leave a Comment »

Oh, it is hard times all around, indeed.

The rare copy of Virginia Woolf’s 1919 book The Mark on the Wall, which was expected to net up to £600 for charity, went for just £300 instead.

Here is the updated story and the initial post.

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The Rumpus covers two Woolfs: Cecil and the Conference

Posted in 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Cecil Woolf, Cecil Woolf Publishers, tagged , , on Wednesday 17 June 2009| 9 Comments »

Cecil Woolf

In a former life, I was a journalist. In another former life, I was a public relations and marketing person. So a week or two before Woolf and the City, I started thinking like both again.

Here’s why. I knew Cecil Woolf was coming to the conference. I knew the conference was in New York City. I knew New York City is full of media.

So I thought, “What journalist who covers the literary beat wouldn’t want to interview the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf who is also an independent publisher?” None, I thought.

As it turns out though, either I was wrong or the current economic downturn has affected New York media more than I imagined. Only one media outlet, The Rumpus, responded to my pitch.

But respond they did, and this week the online magazine posted a fascinating interview with Cecil, as well as a first-person account of the conference. Both are written by Sasha Graybosch.

Thanks to conference organizer Anne Fernald and her intern Megan Branch for putting me in touch with The Rumpus. And thanks to Rumpus editor Rozalia Jovanovic for recognizing a good story when she sees one.

Here is a different view of Cecil on the Lux Lotus blog.

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Links to Woolf and the City media coverage

Posted in 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, tagged on Friday 12 June 2009| 1 Comment »

New York media gave Woolf and the City some coverage, particularly online. To read it, click on the links below.

“Fordham University Hosts Scholars for Weekend of Woolf” by Janet Sassi – Fordham University Top Stories – June 9, 2009

“NY Event: Princeton at the Virginia Woolf Conference” – The Elegant Variation – June 4, 2009

“Woolf and the City” – Lux Lotus blog – June 3, 2009

“Waves of Woolf: 19th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference” by Megan Branch – Oxford University Press Blog – June 3, 2009

“2009 Woolf and the City Preview” by Rosalia Jovanovic – The Rumpus – June 3, 2009

“Woolf and the City”  by Jason Diamond – These American Roads” – June 1, 2009

“Woolf Scholar Brings Virginia to New York” by Janet Sassi, Fordham University In Focus, April 27, 2009

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Patti Smith photo exhibit inspired by Bloomsbury, Woolf

Posted in art, Julia Margaret Cameron, tagged , , , , , on Thursday 11 June 2009| 1 Comment »

Patti Smith

Patti Smith, American musician, poet and artist, will open an exhibit of her Bloomsbury-inspired photographs with a solo show of poetry and music at the Farringford Hotel on the Isle of Wight today.

The exhibit itself is at Dimbola Galleries and Photographic Museum, Freshwater Bay. It features 20 prints  Smith personally selected for the show.

Dimbola is the former home of the pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Its library houses rare and donated books about her and her work. Smith chose Thursday’s date for the opening because it was Julia Margaret Cameron’s birthday.

Smith recently completed a residency at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, which belonged to Bloomsbury painter Vanessa Bell, an experience that inspired many of the photographs in the show, according to the Isle of Wight’s County Press Online. The show will be held in the Old Library Gallery for six weeks.

The  photographs include objects associated with Bell, her sister and author, Virginia Woolf, and their mother, Julia Jackson — a favorite model of Julia Margaret Cameron, pioneering Victorian photographer, the County Press Online reports.

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Wear Woolf in Raybans

Posted in 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, commodification, music, recordings, tagged , , , on Wednesday 10 June 2009| 2 Comments »

One of the big hits at Woolf and the City was the performance by the West Coast band Princeton, who rocked out on stage Friday evening with all four tunes from their “Bloomsbury” album.

Another big hit was the Virginia Woolf t-shirt the band sold. It featured Virginia looking trés cool behind a pair of metallic-gold-trimmed Ray-Bans.

You, too, can be trés cool. Order a shirt from the band’s MySpace page. Scroll way down. Choose your size — men’s or women’s from small to large — and click on the “Pay Now” link to pay through PayPal.

Tip: The shirts are 100 percent cotton, and the women’s sizes run small. Bump your order up a size.

While you are on their site, you can check out their music.

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