Blogging Woolf

A carefully selected collection of relatively recent Woolf sightings from around the Web, starting with Vogue.

• Vogue describes Felicity Jones as “massive fan of Virginia Woolf” who is part of “a new cool British intelligentsia – the Bloomsbury Set relocated to twenty-first-century east London.”
• Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector: Looked like Dietrich, wrote like Virginia Woolf. Read more.
  
• George Saunders says Virginia Woolf’s prose is more difficult to read than his own.
  
• Susan Langford of Britain’s Magic Me needs “A Room of My Own, as Virginia Woolf put it” to achieve her goals.
  
• A story on more women journalists covering cricket invokes Virginia Woolf.
  
• Virginia Woolf’s questions about women, writing and gender discrimination are still relevant today.
  
• Stylistic influence of Virginia Woolf present in stream-of-consciousness sections of Zadie Smith’s new book “The Embassy of Cambodia.”
  
• “Finnegan’s Wake” performance compared to Virginia Woolf’s “The Docks of London.”
  
• Leibowitz exhibit with Woolf photo in Illinois. Get details.
• Virginia Woolf memorably described T. S. Eliot’s wife, Vivien, as like “a bag of ferrets” that Eliot was condemned to wear around his neck.
  
• Anne Olivier Bell, editor of Virginia Woolf’s Diary, in this NPR broadcast about The Monuments Men.
  
• Virginia Woolf on the shelves of Pratt’s Special Collections
  
• Virginia Woolf meets Bridget Jones, Sherlock Holmes in literary London mashup.
  
• Feminists edit women into Wikipedia.
  
• Virginia Woolf and cricket: A connection. Read more.