A few recent Woolf sightings:
- A history project in San Francisco’s gay district that honors Virginia Woolf. The last bronze plaque of the 20 in the Rainbow Honor Walk will memorialize Woolf as a deceased person in the LGBT community who left a lasting legacy. Author Armistead Maupin will dedicate her plaque, which will be located near the Twin Peaks bar at the corner of Castro and 17th streets.
- An open letter to Woolf: To the Late Virginia Woolf by Erin Lin published Aug. 29, 2014.
- Book recommendations from a Berkeley-based bookstore with a Woolf-related name, Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts. The shop offers Mrs. Dalloway’s Better Than a Book Club Selections and the Welcome to Clarissa’s Bookshelf young adult blog.
- Dr. Claire Nicholson’s exploration of Woolf’s often ambivalent relationship with clothes and fashion as part of the National Portrait gallery’s exhibit on Virginia Woolf. The Luncthtime Lecture, Virginia Woolf: A Woman of Fashion?, is free and will be held Sept. 4 at 1:15 p.m. at the NPG.
- Insurrections of the Mind, coming Sept. 16 from Harper Perennial, collects 70 essays from the influential The New Republic magazine that includes one from Woolf.
- A review of the documentary Secrets from the Asylum that mentions Laura Stephen, Woolf’s half-sister.
- Orlando was sold out in Akron, Ohio.
- Woolf broke a grammar rule regarding accusative predicates.
- This list of “Six Best Books” includes Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan.
- What do we see when we read? A take on Lily Briscoe’s painting in To the Lighthouse — and how we see Woolf’s words and Lily’s painting.
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