You’ll have to scroll down to the end to find the connection between Woolf and the infamous Berlusconi, but here are the latest Woolf sightings from around the Web:
WOS students win campus reading contest, TheRecordLive.com, Feb. 17, 2011
Ragsdale took first place honors in Interpretive readings with her reading of “The Widow and the Parrot” by Virginia Woolf. Alayna Jacobs placed second with her reading of Saki’s “The Open Window.” Jacobs earned a $1500 scholarship for placing second . . .
Curtain to fall on London theater’s Fringe Report, Reuters, Feb. 17, 2011
From an office beneath a church in London’s district of Bloomsbury, famed for intellectuals such as novelistVirginia Woolf, it has served as an antidote to the bright lights of London’s West End. But after its 10th anniversary in July next year, . . .
Review: Book demolishes myth that 50 is the new 30, eTaiwan News Finally, after months of trying to resuscitate her near-comatose career, Jackson sucked it up with the help of a quote from Virginia Woolf _ “Arrange whatever pieces come your way” _ and made a documentary about taking her spoiled teenager to the slums . . .
Gems from George Eliot, New Yorker (blog) Virginia Woolf famously characterized “Middlemarch” as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” and I would suggest that it is a book that shows its reader how to be grown up—how to love deeply, how to marry wisely, how to connect . . .
‘Merit Badges’ winner hails from hometown of author Kevin Fenton, MinnPost.com, Feb. 16, 2011
“Merit Badges” — which Fenton describes as a blend of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel “The Waves” and television’s “That ’70s Show” — follows four high school friends growing up together during the 1970s in Minnisapa, a fictional town a half-hour . . . (more…)
George Bahlke, emeritus professor of English at Hamilton College, long-time member of the International Virginia Woolf Society and Woolfian, died Feb. 1 of complications from pneumonia.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, at St. James Episcopal Church in Clinton, New York, to be followed by a reception in the parish hall. Memorial donations may be considered for the George Bahlke Faculty Travel Prize of Hamilton College, which was established by his wife, family and friends on the occasion of his retirement.
His obituary is posted on the Hamilton College website. An online guestbook is available for messages from friends.
Let the marathon begin. The marathon reading of Mrs. Dalloway, that is.
Starting at noon tomorrow, the Kelly Writers House will hold a non-stop reading of Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic novel.
The House is located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania at 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia.
In preparation, organizers say they are “taking the doors off their hinges” for the fifth annual marathon reading. Refreshments include pink cakes, toffee and high tea. Decorations will include flowers — lots of them.
In less than two weeks, a Google alert for “Virginia Woolf” netted the following links. To view more examples of Woolf spotting online that I have collected during the past few years, visit the Woolf sightings page.
On “Middlebrow”, New Yorker (blog) For our purposes, it’s important to note two key figures in the middlebrow debate:Virginia Woolf, who denounced middlebrows for missing the intrinsic value . . .
Chapman’s Odyssey, By Paul Bailey, Independent Virginia Woolf, for example, is referred to primarily as “not much of a listener”. Chapman’s Odyssey is a rewarding curiosity of a book, though hard to . . .
We Need a Hero, The East Hampton Star Then, working on her dissertation at the University of Cologne, she realized when she read Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” that, as she had surmised . . .
Please Your Shelf, Our Muses, Ourselves: Why Women Like Me Run Away From Home, Huffington Post (blog) After all, novelist Virginia Woolf proclaimed that every woman needs a room of one’s own to do so. But Susan and I are so exhausted by the time we arrive at . . . (more…)
Virginia Woolf will be on stage in New York City next month.
The revival ofRoom, a production based on Woolf’s writing that the New York Timesdescribed in 2002 as “a theatrical representation of the writer’s mind, an abstraction painted with theater’s animated tools,” will be at the Julia Miles Theater for 16 performances March 12-27.
Harvested from a lifetime of Virginia Woolf’s writing, Room traces the movement of a creative spirit in exquisite crisis, an artist in a pressure cooker of articulation who seeks room to move, room to breathe, and room to imagine.
As the NYT put it, “one of the strengths of Room is that it focuses neither on polemics nor personal tragedy but rather on gathering the many strands of Woolf’s formidable intellect into a messy, resonant coherence.”
The L.A. Times raved about the production, saying, “Ellen Lauren’s masterly economy of movement, combined with Anne Bogart’s unerring compositional sense, is breathtaking.”
The production is presented by the Women’s Project and SITI Company. It is directed by Anne Bogart, adapted by Jocelyn Clark and stars Ellen Lauren.
It will be on stage Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 and 7:30 p.m.
Exceptions: Matinee only–no 7:30 show–on Sunday March 13.
Bogart and Lauren will be available for a post-performance discussion on March 22 and March 23.
The Julia Miles Theater is located at 424 West 55th Street, just west of Ninth Avenue. Tickets, priced at $60-$75, are on sale at Telecharge.com or call 212-239-6200. A group rate of $25 per ticket is available for groups of more than nine.
