Virginia Woolf turns up everywhere, and this week we sighted her as far away as Iran, New Zealand and Australia. See sightings 
numbered five, 17 and 29 to learn more. And one of her novels jumped to its death on the Entertainment Weekly website. See number eight to find out which one bit the dust — and why.
- Idyll Banter: ‘The Catcher on the Pot’ not for sale, BurlingtonFreePress.com
Just trying getting a straight answer from Virginia Woolf or William Shakespeare.) I can’t imagine a toilet of mine would ever be worth anything, given that I am not in the
slightest bit reclusive. Also, unlike Salinger, I have written a lot of work … - VIRGINIA WOOLF BY ALEXANDRA HARRIS (Thames & Hudson £14.95), Daily Mail
By Val Hennessy So, who IS afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well. I’ll admit, I am. She’s not exactly easy reading, is she? There are scholars who claim she was a ‘mad genius’, others who believe she was ‘the greatest writer who ever lived’ (sob your heart … - Yale Review turns 100, Yale Daily News
The list is filled with notables: Thomas Mann, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and Leon Trotsky, among many others. Although the publication — the nation’s oldest quarterly literary journal — currently employs only two half-time staff members, … - Theater Listings: Sept. 23 — 29, New York Times
(Brantley) ★ ‘Septimus and Clarissa’ The heedless theater company Ripe Time explodes Virginia Woolf’s miniaturist masterpiece “Mrs. Dalloway” into a beautifully choreographed exploration of love, loss and party planning in post-World War I England. … - Isherwood travels to Iran with two novels, Iran Book News Agency
Clearly inspired by Virginia Woolf and Forester, he consciously applies modernist methods such as stream of consciousness in this novel. “Mr. Norris changes Trains” is another novel published in 1935 that is believed to be based on Isherwood’s own life … - Times Calendar, The Daily Advertiser
Inspired by a section of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” William and Judith” is a whimsical riff on the Shakespeare authorship controversy, a meditation on creative identity and an exploration of gender roles in the world of Shakespeare’s … - Communication: it’s always better when we’re together, ABC Online
This is why I keep re-reading Virginia Woolf’s brilliant Mrs Dalloway: good fiction can help us realise how much of another human being is left out, exaggerated, diminished or just faked. It is a lesson in the precariousness of understanding, … - A book commits suicide every time you watch ‘Jersey Shore’: Do you read high …. Entertainment Weekly (blog)
If you look closely, you can see what appears to be To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and an unidentified book plunging to their deaths because they refuse to exist in a world in which Jersey Shore is being watched. The photo is obviously a joke, … - What’s the Big Deal?: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Film.com
There is no reason to fear Virginia Woolf! She died a long time ago, and even when she was alive she wasn’t very feisty. So why have we been asking ourselves the musical question Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for nearly five decades? … - Stage Dive: An Off Broadway Digest, New York Magazine (blog)
With the ghostly great Septimus and Clarissa, playwright-performer Ellen McLaughlin and director-choreographer Rachel Dickstein propel Virginia Woolf’s ecstatically unhappy hostess (McLaughlin herself) through a patently mundane yet psychologically … - Theater: Triumphant “Septimus & Clarissa;” Wounded “Crane”, Huffington Post (blog)
Two shows opened recently — Septimus & Clarissa, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway; and Crane Story, a modern spin on the classic folk tale. Both shows are made with care by committed artists and involve a strong emphasis … - The Perfection of English and the Making of the KJB, PBS
Perhaps one of the writers contemporary readers would find most unlikely to be influenced by the Bible is Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Yet literary critic and New Yorker staff writer James Wood, in his essay on her novel To the Lighthouse (1927) in the … - Book Excerpt: The Dyslexic Advantage, Wired News
“Even then I read so slowly and poorly that I took my master’s orals on three authors, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway without having read all of their works. I couldn’t possibly read all of their works.” Fortunately, Anne could still … - Cookery holidays: Don’t forget your wooden spoon…, The Independent
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne, American columnist (1920-1998) “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. - Schabas on point, Queen’s Journal
I’m tempted to say Virginia Woolf because she’s a favourite of mine and I’m a bit obsessed with the tensions between her aesthetic theory and her feminist views. But the problem with writers is that there can be a jarring disconnect between their … - Bipolar Buzz at a Philippines Cafe, Wall Street Journal (blog)
Virginia Woolf’s Tears, aimed at depression and compulsive behavior, is an organic turkey soup with chopped green apples - Fiction Addiction, New Zealand Herald
… rock & roll on vinyl, the Rolling Stones, Russia, the seaside, Frank Sinatra, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, springtime, John Steinbeck, surrealism, Henry David Thoreau, Toll House cookies, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, … - Citywide Pittsburgh Biennial comes to campus, CMU The Tartan Online
… asking visitors to essentially create the art themselves, by either writing a letter to a feminist scientist or by sitting down at a tea table and having a conversation with a total stranger (an idea borrowed from a Virginia Woolf essay calling for … - Where We Must Stand: African women in an age of war, Open Democracy
Years before Butler, feminist anti-war activists – Virginia Woolf among them – drew links between war and the male domination of political and economic arenas. Woolf may not have been fully aware of it, but she wrote The Three Guineas (1937) at a time … - Shakespeare and his ambitious sister, The Daily Advertiser
When writing the play, Daigle was inspired by a section of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.” In Woolf’s essay, she made the case for an imaginary Judith Shakespeare. Judith, though ambitious and equally as talented as her brother William, … - The brights of spring, The Independent
Designer couple Thea Bregazzi and Justin Thornton’s inspiration was literary heroine Virginia Woolf. Aside from some flashes of virginal white lace, however, the execution was far more avant-garde, including hi-tech, pixelated, pastel geometrics, … - Radev collection: tale of three art lovers to be told in new touring exhibition, The Guardian
He was part of the tangled Bloomsbury set although somewhat overshadowed by his better known cousin Vita Sackville-West, who had a famous affair with Virginia Woolf. “Vita was very nice to his face but my God, she belittled him behind his back,” said … - “Clybourne Park” (Steppenwolf Theatre): A Subtle Norris Takes THE Prize!, ChicagoNow
Scenic Designer Todd Rosenthal creates another “Virginia Woolf-esque” homestead and then during intermission totally trashes it. Rosenthal flips the makeover concept with the *after* being the mess. The house and the show is all about change! … - Downton Abbey is sheer fantasy, says historian, Telegraph.co.uk
Prof Alison Light, an academic and author of Mrs Woolf and Her Servants, which explored the relationship between
Virginia Woolf and her domestic staff, said that members of the Edwardian aristocracy were “mean and vindictive”. … - Notes From King Bolo, Wall Street Journal
‘You would expire of boredom,” TS Eliot warned his friend Virginia Woolf while discussing his wish to visit her home. “Insensitive persons can endure me for 24 hours; there is one old gentleman who, kept up by Port Wine, … - TS Eliot’s On-Again, Off-Again Anti-Semitism, Forward
… that as metic he felt literarily and personally complicit with Jews such as Sydney Schiff (a novelist and translator who published under the pen name Stephen Hudson) and Leonard Woolf (the political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf). … - The perversity of Britain’s diversity regulations is bad for men, women and …, Telegraph.co.uk
The economic downturn begins, and lasts as long as a Virginia Woolf novel feels. If your company is to survive, you’re going to have to let me, or Jane, or Dave go. How easy do you think it would be to select either Jane or myself for redundancy, … - It would be a shame to lose Dahl’s writing hut, Moose Jaw Times-Herald
I’ve been to several writers’ homes, including Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, Hampshire, where she spent the last eight years of her life, Virginia Woolf’s country retreat Monk House in Lewes, East Sussex, and Ernest Hemmingway’s home in Key West, … - Otherness eludes the other Ondaatje, The Australian
… intriguing polymath Richard Burton (two books following his journeys through India, and through Africa in search of the Nile’s source); Leonard Woolf, who was a civil servant in Ceylon before he married Virginia; and Ernest Hemingway in Africa. …
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