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Where the bombs fell in London

Posted in war, tagged , , , on Friday 21 December 2012| Leave a Comment »

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A grad student of Elisa Kay Sparks of Clemson University found a new website, The Bomb Sight project, that shows where German bombs fell in London from Oct. 7, 1940, through June 6, 1941, the period of time known as the Blitz.  Visitors to the site can zoom in and out to see individual city blocks, including the Bloomsbury and Tavistock Square area.

Previously available only for viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.

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Virginia Woolf and the value of life

Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Tuesday 18 December 2012| Leave a Comment »

Emma WoolfIt’s the season of light. Of peace. Of joy. But in the face of Friday’s heartbreaking tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, an essay by Emma Woolf, daughter of Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson, seems specially poignant.

Titled “An Apple a Day: A Special Anniversary,” the piece was published in The Times on Nov. 20. It tells the story of the goodbyes she has said to loved ones who have passed on. And it ends with a quote from Virginia Woolf: “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”

But before it ends, Emma shares this wisdom: “[L]ife is precious. Now more than ever is a time for new beginnings.”

Amen.

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To the Lighthouse poetry prize winner announced

Posted in A Room of Her Own Foundation, awards, tagged , , , on Sunday 16 December 2012| Leave a Comment »

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Finalist Judge Evie Shockley selected Leia Penina Wilson’s “I built a boat with all the towels in your closet” as A Room of Her Own’s fourth winning To the Lighthouse manuscript:  “I was mesmerized by the wild lyricism, quiet wit, and fearless curiosity of these poems.  I feel lucky to have encountered them and am delighted to recognize them with the To the Lighthouse Prize.

””I built a boat with all the towels in your closet” will be published by  Red Hen Press.

Jan. 31, 2013
Orlando Deadline: Poetry, Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction & Flash Fiction

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Woolf sightings: A December dusting

Posted in Virginia Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , on Friday 14 December 2012| Leave a Comment »

I feel as though I am missing something. But the writers who reference Woolf must be busy with their holiday preparations, as there is only a dusting of Woolf sightings this week.

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  1. Virginia Woolf made her gay, Xtra.ca
    “One of my recurring jokes, because I just create jokes that explain how this all came to be, is that Janet McTeer in Portrait of a Marriage made me gay, or Virginia Woolfmade me gay,” Perovic says. Incidental Music Lydia Perovic Inanna $22.95. Share …
  2. A Second Birth, Brooklyn Rail
    When winter comes, I find myself drawn to books with a strong authorial voice that matches my inward thoughts: Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust; To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf; The Lover, by Marguerite Duras, to name just a few. Joining these is Kim ..
  3. Murderous Little World, 89.3 KPCC
    … Linda Bouchard is based on poems by MacArthur genius Anne Carson from her collection Men in the Off Hours (2001)—notable for blending free verse with prose and reinventions of figures such as Lazarus, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf and Hokusai
  4. The Lure of the Writer’s CabinVW's writing Lodge, New York Times (blog)
    A standard Internet search can quickly yield images of the writing rooms (cabins, huts, sheds) of legendary scriveners: Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roald Dahl, Carl Jung, Henry Thoreau and — a writer of a markedly different sort …
  5. IoS paperback review: To the River, By Olivia Laing, The Independent
    In it, Laing describes a walk along the length of the River Ouse in Sussex, interlacing her travelogue with the story of Virginia Woolf, who drowned herself there in 1941. Though Laing’s reflections on the connection between psychology and water are …
  6. This Thing Called Life, About – News & Issues
    In Virginia Woolf‘s Mrs. Dalloway, the heroine spends her day preparing for a party. She collects flowers, prepares her clothing, and makes all the arrangements; but she also carefully recollects her past–loves and loss …

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Woolf and mysticism in Chinese while living in Turkey

Posted in books, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Thursday 13 December 2012| Leave a Comment »

allison linA new book about Virginia Woolf’s connections to such mystical figures as Confucius and Rumi was published this year. Mystic Virginia Woolf, by Dr. Allison Lin, was written in Chinese and published in Tapiei while Lin was living in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Lin is an assistant professor in the Department of Western Language and Literature at the University of Gaziantep. She is also the author of Virginia Woolf and the European Avant-Garde (Taipei: Showwe, 2009).

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