Blogging Woolf

The past week saw a bit of a slowdown in the rush of Woolf sightings that coincided with the 70th anniversary of her death, as well as the death of Elizabeth Taylor of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fame. Here are 25 Woolf sightings spotted by Google in the past eight days.

1. Make Room, Milkwood gallery – review, The Guardian
   Supported by The Leverhulme Trust In an age of  austerity, Virginia Woolf’s words still ring true under the spotlights of  Milkwood Gallery’s latest exhibition Make Room. Yes, an artist simply must have  ‘a room of one’s own’ but it’s certainly practical …
2. When What You Wear Says It All: Book Love as Fashion Accessory, Huffington Post (blog)
   For Sunday events, I’ll opt for a shirtwaist dress and a favorite author on my chest, choosing perhaps a well-known image of Virginia Woolf from Sujette. Friday nights, I prefer my accessories to swing. A black t-shirt provides perfect background to … Read “Five fashionable views of Virginia.”
3. No one is sacrosant, Telegraph.co.uk
   The Hours (1998) by Michael Cunningham featured Virginia Woolf writing Mrs Dalloway and committing suicide. EL Doctorow’s Ragtime (1975) contained a lavish assortment of “real characters” including Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and Sigmund Freud. …
4. Magical elements: an interview with Uršula Kovalyk, Czech Position (blog)
   In any case, I’ve always been fascinated by writers like GGMárquez, Isabel Allende, Virginia Woolf, that had magical elements in their work. I really dislike talking about my writing style though, because I’m not a literary theorist and honestly, …
5. MENTAL  ILLNESS IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF, Daily Mirror
   Author Virginia Woolf was manic depressive and so was England’s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. John Nash who won the Nobel Prize for Mathematics was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. So there is nothing to be ashamed of in becoming mentally …
6. Court Theatre Presents Sarah Ruhl’s Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s ORLANDO …, Broadway World
   Court Theatre continues its 56th season with Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, directed by Jessica Thebus. The production will close on April 10, 2011 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue. Sarah Ruhl, one of American theater’s most … Read “Orlando’s on-stage brilliance more than a lovely coincidence.”
7. Doctor Honoris Causa for Orhan Pamuk, Standart News
   … of the European literature with the Ottoman elegant phrasing. The clash of influences between the Eastern and the Western is among the main themes in his books. James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf are among the writers he likes the most.
8. British art schools: Class dismissed, The Guardian
   “The great thing about art schools,” says Patrick Brill, aka artist Bob and Roberta Smith, who studied at Reading University and Goldsmiths, “is that
   they’re like the room Virginia Woolf talks about in A Room of One’s Own. They give people the space to …
9. NRA World: Top student orators honored, Norwich Bulletin
   Underclassmen included uppers Jared Ensling, “9/11 Speech,” by George W. Bush; Marissa Minor, “Professions for Women,” by Virginia Woolf; Michaela Murray, “A Compilation of Two Essays from NPR’s What I Believe”; and Brian Reyes, “Inaugural Address,” by …
10. Biography breathes new life into controversial poet’s story, Winnipeg Free Press
    … despite her aristocratic background, she was not affluent and did not achieve financial security until much later in her life — she hosted gatherings that attracted, among others, WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf. …
11. Van Gogh is Bipolar: Healthy food for every mood, ABS CBN News
    It’s a hodge-podge of recipes named after popular bipolar personalities–writers like Virginia Woolf, artists like Courtney Love and Mel Gibson, and American Presidents. The items include President Roosevelt’s Norwegian Salmon Belly, …
12. Cunningham for Sydney Writers’ Festival, SX News (blog)
    The novel was adapted for the screen and its star Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her role as Virginia Woolf. Cunningham will take part in several events at the Sydney Writers Festival including an in-conversation event with former director of the …
13. Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius, By Richard Greene, The Independent
    Her record on anti-Semitism proves impeccable, in stark contrast, say, to Virginia Woolf. She was capable of independent-minded judgments, effectively ushering Dylan Thomas, Denton Welch and American novelist James Purdy into print. …
14. Cross Country: English Buildings and Landscape from Countryside to Coast, By …, The Independent
    Significant, too, is Alexandra Harris’s seminal book Romantic Moderns, which gives cultural cohesion to the artistic and literary world of Betjeman and Paul Nash, Virginia Woolf and Evelyn Waugh, John Piper and Eric Ravilious, and convincingly argues … Read “Romantic Moderns in the money” and “Harris on tap for two more tomes.”
15. Here, there, everywhere, Pueblo Chieftain
    Patton counts among her influences the artists Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe, novelist Virginia Woolf, and the cultural soup of Seattle, where she moved 30 years ago and met and married Dave. “Seattle is such a rich place. …
16. A Conversation with Stewart O’Nan, Reluctant Habits
    As a reader I have very catholic tastes (Stephen King and Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury and John Wideman). So it makes sense that as a writer I write very different books about very different things. It’s been that way from the start, and because I …
17. Journey of a lifetime, Spectator.co.uk
    (One reason that I’m sure it’s to Virginia Woolf rather than to Dickens that Hadley would be flattered to be compared). Her characters are people making, or contemplating, new starts (Polish immigrants going into business, a young woman dropping out of …
18. Shows – April 7 onwards, Flintshire Chronicle
    MANCHESTER: April 14-16 – Beat Productions present A Good Day – Love, Death and Virginia Woolf – a dramatic love story which gives a mesmerising and compelling view of Woolf’s final hours at the Royal Northern College of Music in Oxford Road at 7.30pm … Read “Woolf play on stage in Manchester.”
19. How to Lose Your Job and Not Have a Nervous Breakdown, Forbes (blog)
    On the bad days, a line from Virginia Woolf’s suicide note resurfaces in my mind: “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again.” On the good days, I get up early, search for work, and the maze becomes a memory. Want to hire me? Email me. …
20. A Man Of Parts, Herald Scotland
    Lenin, however, deemed him “a little bourgeois” and a philistine, while Virginia Woolf lumped him with Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy, writers of forgettable books which, in order to complete reading them, “it seems necessary to do something – to …
21. Young Concert Artists Presents Jennifer Johnson Cano in NY Recital Debut 5/2, Broadway World
    The program includes Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, and Ravel’s Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques. As with the other concerts in this season’s YCA series, the program will feature a special YCA “alumna,” in … Read “Virginia Woolf set to music won the Pulitzer.”
22. Small Print – Literary Magazines, Forbes India
    The latter, published by Yale University, included contributors such as Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Eugene O’Neill, HG Wells and John Maynard Keynes. The movement gathered strength in the 20th century: Poetry Magazine, published in …
23. At last, a book list that ticks all the right boxes, Herald Scotland
    Helen Dunmore: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Anne Michaels: Tess Of The D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Linda Grant: Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman. Ann Patchett: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell. Lionel Shriver: Revolutionary Road …
24. Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X, California Literary Review
    Worse, whereas anthologies of primary works were once upon deemed useful — as in a two-volume set for sophomores known familiarly if long ago as “English Literature from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf” — those have been “translated’ into triaged sets of …
25. So Help Me I’ll…, Bookslut
    Despite the circumstances of her death and her penchant for the ladies, should we base our judgments on the writing of Virginia Woolf only on that Between The Acts, her final novel, featured her only overtly suicidal and homosexual characters? …