Blogging Woolf has been busy collecting, but not posting, Woolf sightings. As a result, we have a feast for the curious mind today. They include reviews of Vita and Virginia in New Jersey (1-4), news about a lesbian bar named Dalloway (32), a Woolf 
appearance on Glee (10-12) and actress Alfre Woodard‘s desire to step into the role of Virginia Woolf (30).
- Review of ‘Vita and Virginia,’ at Luna Stage, New York Times
In Act II of Eileen Atkins‘s intelligent and resonant “Vita and Virginia,” now playing at Luna Stage, Woolf (Mona Hennessy) discovers that her lover Vita Sackville-West (Rachel Black Spaulding) has been seen “lunching at the Cafe Royal” with another … - Love, Lust and Literature Sizzle Onstage at Luna, Patch.com
The work of two women, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, is presented by many. Luna Stage premieres ‘Vita and Virginia’, written by Eileen Atkins, in New Jersey, with performances starting this weekend. Directed by Jane Mandel, and starring Mona … - Events in New Jersey, New York Times
WEST ORANGE Luna Stage “Vita and Virginia,” by Eileen Atkins, adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Through Oct. 28. $25 to $45. Luna Stage, 555 Valley Road. lunastage.org; (973) 395-5551. WEST WINDSOR … - A Fall Theater Season of Infinite Variety, New York Times
In West Orange, Luna Stage is presenting “Vita and Virginia,” Eileen Atkins’s 1992 dramatization of the letters and diaries of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf(Sept. 27 to Oct. 28). In New Brunswick, the Crossroads Theater Company has “Knock Me … - A Painting Opportunity, Daily Beast
More than just the title of Pat Barker’s new novel is reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s 1922 novel Jacob’s Room. Woolf wrote her third novel in memory of her brother Thoby, who died at age 26 in 1906, and so too Barker’s novel is about a sister mourning … - Bitter lessons from war, MiamiHerald.com
Barker, never the most elegant prose stylist, stumbles with some back story but sets the bar high, borrowing more than a page from Virginia Woolf. Toby’s Room employs an impressionistic, experimental structure and has a title similar to Jacob’s Room … - The Weekend: Art, Drinks, Jazz, Blues, Books, Theater and More!, Baristanet
The play is by Eileen Atkins and directed by Jane Manel, adapted from correspondence betweenVirginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. “Vita Sackville-West was a wealthy aristocrat, poet, and author. Virginia Woolf was of more modest means, and widely … - NJ Theater Roundup, week of 10/5: ‘One Slight Hitch,’ ‘A Chorus Line,’ more, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
WEST ORANGE “Vita and Virginia,” Eileen Atkins play adapted from the letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Luna Stage, 555 Valley Road. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.; Thursday, 7:30 p.m., $25-$35. (973) 395-5551. - The Godfather of Nyama Choma – Francis Wahome, AllAfrica.com
opinion. British novelist Virginia Woolf is quoted saying, “one cannot think well, love well, and sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ‘Dining well’ is the feeling one gets while digging into scrumptious nyama choma, ugali, and spinach at Francis … - ‘All We Know: Three Lives,’ by Lisa Cohen, New York Times
Todd and Garland published Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant and other Bloomsbury figures. Woolf associated the couple, Cohen writes, with “the knot of art, commerce and sexuality that haunts and defines both modernism and fashion.” The golden moment … - Glee Recap of Season 4, Episode 4: “The Break-Up” — Blaine Cheated on Kurt …
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Plus, a note to Virginia Woolf: We’re never reading another one of your novels for as long as we live! As far as we’re concerned, Virginia is as responsible for this break-up as anyone else, since it was her books that brought the “crazy or lesbian … - ‘Glee’ recap: Break Up, Baltimore Sun (blog)
But then she confessed she had an “energy exchange” with a Virginia Woolf fan at her school. Then Santana tells Brittany she doesn’t want to be in a long-distance relationship because they’re “impossible to maintain.” She says it’s not a breakup, but. - Watch: Santana Serenades Brittany with ‘Mine’ in ‘Glee’s’ ‘The Break-Up’, SheWired
Thanks to flashback, viewers got to see that she and a girl armed with the Virginia Woolfcollection, had checked Santana out, and Santana returned the favor. While Santana explained that she would never cheat and that she didn’t want to full-on break … - Lost Worlds | Mary, Mary, quite contrary, Livemint
Born in 1689, she was an English aristocrat in Georgian Britain, a famous wit and beauty, an autodidact who educated herself in her father’s library (much like Virginia Woolf), wrote her autobiography when she was a teenager, and eloped with the … - Dame Eileen Atkins: I’m not jealous of Judi Dench being in Skyfall, Metro
Her liking for difficult work means she’s long been a fan of Virginia Woolf. Though she enjoyed huge success with a one-woman show of A Room Of One’s Own, her devotion to the Bloomsbury aesthete hasn’t always been rewarded. Atkins’s involvement in a … - ANA Trio to perform at Tufts Oct. 14, Boston.com
The trio will perform a series of premieres and commissions, featuring pieces by Rob Deemer (“Snow”, with poetry by Sara Teasdale), Daron Arik Hagen (“Rapture and Regret”, with text fromVirginia Woolf’s The Waves and Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa; … - What is biomimetics?, Deccan Chronicle
While everyone thought no one could match up to the class of Virginia Woolf’s literary style, Emily Perkins managed to surprise the world. Her fourth novel, The Forrests, has positioned her in the literary world as the next Virginia Woolf. Critics feel … - Mark Your Calendars: Council Meeting, Vaccinations Offered, and Farmers Market, Patch.com
Synopsis: Vita Sackville-West was a wealthy socialite and aspiring poet. Virginia Woolf was of more modest means, and widely considered to be a brilliant writer. The long and complex relationship between these two women will be explored in a scene in … - IN THE EASY CHAIR / Betty Cotter, The Westerly Sun
I’d like to visit all of England’s great author sites, including the homes of Dickens, the Brontes, andVirginia Woolf. ALWAYS IN MY POCKET Kleenex. I’m a walking allergen. WHAT I WANTED TO BE WHEN I GREW UP A librarian. I just loved books so much, … - Umbrella is Will Self’s most ambitious work to date, The National
Following in the footsteps of both James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, the former’s quip that “a brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella” introduces the novel, and Self’s ageing protagonist’s bus journeys around North London are haunted by the image … - This fall, there’s a dead male novelists’ society of two
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In freely revising the myths of great men, Heroines follows Virginia Woolf and her “Shakespeare’s sister” invention, or Germaine Greer’s incredible retelling of art history, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, or The Lives … - Café Royal set for December re-opening, Hotel Owner
Former patrons include Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Winston Churchill and Muhammad Ali. Over the past four years, the old Café Royal restaurant has been transformed into a contemporary hotel and restored to its former … - Lamenting the Modern: On Zadie Smith’s NW, The Millions
Several critics have already pointed out NW’s debt to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Both novels are concerned with female characters who are lost in their marriages and in their modern worlds. The pace of Smith’s prose, especially in the opening … - The Sitting Room revives rare archives, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Years later the Virginia Woolf aficionado brought that sensibility to The Sitting Room, a nonprofit resource and reference
library of women’s literature, which she and seven others co-founded in 1981. With an annual operating budget of less than $10 … - Divorcing a Person Suffering From Depression — My Personal Views on This …, Glossy News (satire)
Here I am quoting the very famous, beautiful, wealthy, upper-middle-class Virginia Woolf, whose husband was probably walking in your shoes at the time. “Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of these terrible … - Straight talk, Business Standard
I feel a deep connection with writers such as Virginia Woolf who are remarkably open to genderless interpretations of romance. Mrs Dalloway, Woolf’s classic about one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, is a masterpiece of writing that runs as fast … - Book Review: The Sweet Girl, by Annabel Lyon, National Post
Expressed in such blunt terms, Pythias’s story can be seen as a variation of the tale told by Virginia Woolf in her parable about Shakespeare’s (imaginary) sister Judith, another bright-eyed girl doomed to a mute, inglorious fate. While Woolf’s … - BLOOMSBURY’S BREAKTHROUGH: Area that challenged the higher education …,
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IN the 100 years before Virginia Woolf moved to 46 Gordon Square, in January 1905, Bloomsbury had established itself as London’s intellectual powerhouse. Clustering around University College, and benefiting from the proximity of the British Museum, … - Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton: review, Telegraph.co.uk
Today, Bloomsbury means Virginia Woolf and her coevals but, as Ashton shows so vividly, it was the district’s reputation as a centre of intellectual life that in reality drew the “Bloomsberries”: they didn’t create the area, the area created them. In … - Hello, Mrs. Dalloway, Daily Beast
Emily Perkins’s fourth novel, The Forrests, positions her as the heir to Virginia Woolf’s approach to fiction—for them, life is measured by the intensity of the various episodes that constitute it. Print; Email; Comments. Meet the Forrests. In Emily … - Woodard dives into work to cope with empty nest, The Daily Advertiser
… snap out of it, mommy, and bring your storytelling butt to work,'” Woodard said. “Steel Magnolias” airs Oct. 7, and Woodard also has her eye on returning to the stage. “I just decided I’m old enough to play Virginia Woolf,” she said, “so I would … - Short stories are far more than premises for ‘twists’, The Guardian (blog)
“A new kind of prose” was Katherine Mansfield; “A row of lamps”, Virginia Woolf. Chekhov’s “new form” … All opinions varying, but all agreeing and disagreeing about the genre from the point of view of someone who actually writes short stories – either… - Lani Kai Shuttering to Make Way for Lesbian Bar, Eater NY (blog)
For what is apparently their first restaurant project, Dunn and Stolz took the name fromVirginia Woolf, and hired a chef from Boston’s Noche. The star-studded duo will now immediately go to work renovating the space with the ambitious goal of opening … - Let’s hear it for a music hall Major!, Daily Mail
Major points out that Eliot’s contemporary, Virginia Woolf, was another improbable enthusiast, noting excitedly in her diary that she’d been to see the legendary Marie Lloyd. By this stage though, Woolf recorded,. Lloyd was ‘scarcely able to walk … - A play set in a women’s toilet is a surprise success, DigitalJournal.com
The BBC notes that, in the play ‘Sailing On’, two characters drawn from more notable works: Shakespeare’s Ophelia and Virginia Woolf, interact with the small audience while trying to help another character called Romola (drawn from a George Elliot novel). - Novel finds the grit and light of the streets of Victoria, Victoria Times Colonist
Consider the gardening wonk who told Virginia Woolf that she put the wrong flowers in To the Lighthouse. Woolf was justifiably irritated. Fiction takes place, not in the real world, but next door to it, in the house of what-if. Yet the questions bubble … - Eva Figes, Author and Feminist, Dies at 80, New York Times
“Virginia Woolf and Kafka were the huge influences she looked back to,” Orlando Figes, a historian and author, said. Much of Ms. Figes’s fiction was concerned with the passage of time. “Waking” (1981) tells one woman’s story through her awakening from… - Novel ideas: UK literary escapes, The Guardian
A garden studio sleeping two at Virginia Woolf’s country retreat, Monk’s House, is now available through the National Trust. Monk’s House, a modest 18th-century weatherboard property in the village of Rodmell near Lewes, was used by Woolf and her … - BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gorra’, Washington Times
Today it is recognized as one of the great American novels, the link, as author Michael Gorra states, “between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.” As such, the book continues to sell 25,000 copies a year. James conceived the story while traveling in … - The Diary: Teju Cole, Financial Times
I enjoy her excitement about it; we talk about Virginia Woolf, and about how Woolf dealt with reviews of her work (badly, from which we both take some comfort). I’ve time only for a little tourism. At the National Gallery of Scotland, I’m drawn in by … - What books make the best movies?, Globe and Mail
The advent in the twenties of the great modernist writers coincided with the rise of film. Indeed, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner (who briefly toiled in Tinseltown) were all intrigued by the movies, particularly by the narrative fluency … - ‘Fame,’ ‘Celebrity,’ ‘Stardom’ and Other Dirty Words, Huffington Post
… of Virginia Woolf? while he was a Yale undergraduate (the Nick was David Hyde Pierce); Marcia Cross may have been a crazed denizen of Melrose Place and a Desperate Housewife, but she’s a Juilliard grad who did Shakespeare before achieving fame. - The God of Marriage, New York Times (blog)
I had chosen to write my British literature term paper on the notion of marriage in Virginia Woolf’s“Mrs. Dalloway,” despite the Orthodox Jewish Girl stereotypes that decision sent buzzing in my head. (You religious girls in your 20s. One-track minds … - Opening up and inside out, The Economist (blog)
His latest novel, “Umbrella”, is a wordy stream-of-consciousness narrative that is unashamedly modernist in style and structure. With echoes of James Joyce andVirginia Woolf, the narrative is made up of fragmented sequences, defying any linear movements. - THEATRE: Local Listings > September 6, Camden New Journal newspapers website
… and obsession. • PENTAMETERS, 28 Heath Street, NW3, 020 7435 3648. Vita & Virginia, Thurs-Sun, 8pm (Sun, 5pm). £10 (£8 concs). Until Sept 9. The 20-year love affair between author Virginia Woolf and the aristocrat Vita Sackville-West is brought to …
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