The first of 20 Woolf sightings this week involves a BIC pen created for a woman. Yes, you read that right: a lady pen of our own. And the BIC For Her package features the color purple, Virginia’s favorite ink color. The pen, though, is sold in a variety of ladylike pastel colors.
- BIC For Her: Sexist Biros Cause Review Storm On Amazon (PICTURES/POLL), Huffington Post UK
When Virginia Woolf asked for a room of her own, she was of course mistaken. What she needed was a feminine pen, or biro, to help focus her girly mind. Thankfully, pen manufacturers BIC understand the difficulties women face attempting to write ‘her … - ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith: A brilliant novel — for the dedicated reader,Washington Post
Smith has said her composition of “NW” was influenced by Virginia Woolf, whose ghost you can sense in this fluid mingling of internal thoughts and dialogue, snatches of description and sudden shifts in point of view. Jennifer Egan’s protean “A Visit …
- NW by Zadie Smith: review, Telegraph.co.uk
I have to admit, the initial Virginia Woolf-style stream of consciousness gave me the discombobulated feeling that I was about to float away to the lighthouse: “Four gardens along, in the estate, a grim girl on the third floor screams Anglo-Saxon at … - Inventive ‘NW’ takes readers in a darker direction, USA TODAY
If she conjured E.M. Forster with On Beauty, NW channels Virginia Woolf. The modernist influence is deliberate, as Smith unravels — in a rhythmic stream-of-consciousness style — the intertwined stories of a group of contemporary Londoners in their … - Are Amazon reader reviews killing off the critic?, The Guardian (blog)
Virginia Woolf worried that the reader was none the wiser because “the clash of completely contradictory opinions cancel each other out”. According to Elizabeth Hardwick in 1959, “sweet, bland commendations fall everywhere upon the scene; a universal, … - Luna Stage Announces VITA AND VIRGINIA, Opening 10/5, Broadway World
Luna Stage opens its 20th anniversary season with the New Jersey premiere of Vita and Virginia, an intimate two-character play by Eileen Atkins, adapted from correspondence between friends, lovers and confidants, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. - Cuando los programadores aprenden a compartir a la fuerza, The Wall Street Journal Americas
Virginia Woolf sostenía que una escritora necesita un cuarto propio. En Silicon Valley, algunas empresas están cuestionando si los programadores de software necesitan tener sus propios cubículos. Su método se conoce como “programación en pareja”, … - Book reviews: too nice and maybe also too fake?, Christian Science Monitor
Virginia Woolf once said “the clash of completely contradictory opinions cancel each other out.” Perhaps most damning was Elizabeth Hardwick, who, in 1959, had this to say about book reviews: “sweet, bland commendations fall everywhere upon the scene; … - THEATRE: Local Listings > August 30, Camden New Journal newspapers website
The 20-year love affair between author Virginia Woolf and the aristocrat Vita Sackville-West. • ROSEMARY BRANCH THEATRE, 2 Shepperton Road, N1 3DT, 020 7704 6665. Regent’s Canal, 7.30pm. £10 (£8 concs). Sept 5-6. A folk opera on the history of the .. - Northern treat, Sun.Star
An English writer, Virginia Woolf, said so. She could have meant anything could be done well if only the stomach is served well too. In line with that is a somewhat similar thought: one cannot better celebrate its 23rd anniversary, if one has not any … - Future Nobel laureate in literature Patrick White working as a jackeroo in …, The Australian
White seems to be taking on Virginia Woolf’s challenge to the modern novel to capture life as something that is not neat but instead “a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end”. (It’s … - Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel – review, The Guardian
“It is fatal,” Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One’s Own, “to be a man or woman pure and simple.” This phrase, repeated several times, might be thought of as the guiding sentiment of Unmastered, Katherine Angel’s provocative and profoundly personal .. - A Stream of Consciousness, National Football Post (blog)
Virginia Woolf searched for the meaning of life in this rambling, stream of consciousness kind of way. I didn’t like reading her because of it. But now I think maybe there’s something to that. “The great revelation perhaps never did come,” said Woolf … - Weidenfeld & Nicolson To Publish The New Statesman Century, Booktrade.info
Contributors include George Orwell, WB Yeats, HG Wells, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, Christopher Hitchens, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Richard Dawkins and Hugh Grant. No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished … - W&N to publish 100 years of New Statesman, The Bookseller
The book will feature a selection of writings that have appeared over the years, with picks from many of the magazine’s staff and contributors, including George Orwell, W B Yeats, H G Wells and Virginia Woolf. There will also be selections from … - Interview: Mustansar Hussain Tarar, DAWN.com
Nowadays, I am reading Iceland’s only Nobel Laureate, Halldór Laxness’ Independent People,Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The War of the End of the World. Also, Ibn Warraq’s Virgins, What Virgins? If I like a particular author … - Britain’s Wastelands and Wonderlands at the British Library, Newsweek
Street Haunting exhibits at the British Museum include Virginia Woolf.
The city calls to its literary inhabitants, prompting them to roam its streets for inspiration, as Virginia Woolf does in her essay “Street Haunting,” and to transform it into the fantastical London Below of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, full of Black …
- Art review: ‘where is the power’ at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth Star Telegram
She remembers the date clearly, as she was reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Power. It was Woolf’s insistence on personal inquiry that prompted Thornton’s journey, which led to this exhibition at Fort Worth … - Exhibition links Tapawera artists, The Nelson Mail
Other pieces of text include the writing of Jules Verne and Virginia Woolf, the lyrics of a country and western song and a quote from a bemused 8-year-old boy: “Is that art or should I sit on it?” That observation came from the son of a friend of David … - A Q&A With Maya Angelou, Huffington Post (blog)
I’m a great admirer of Langston Hughes’ poetry and that of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Virginia Woolf. When I was trying to form my own voice, my own melody, I would read aloud, and I found it did me so much good. A lesser known fact about you is that …
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Yes, that’s all Virginia was missing. A pen of her own. *sighs*