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Wolfe song finds “Virginia Woolf Underwater”

Posted in music, tagged , on Thursday 11 April 2013| 3 Comments »

“Virginia Woolf Underwater” by Chelsea Wolfe, a bonus track on her album, Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs, released Oct. 16, 2012.

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Woolf sightings: Including a song of Julia

Posted in music, Virginia Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , on Wednesday 20 March 2013| Leave a Comment »

Some interesting Woolf sightings today, including the unreleased demo by Sufjan Stevens, which is based on Virginia’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen (4); Emma Watson’s musings on her shifts from high to low culture (11); and small talk about whether one would want to be stuck in a lift with Woolf (40).

  1. A Servant of One’s Own: On Virginia Woolf, Domestics, and Downton …, The Millions, March 15, 2013
    A Servant of One’s Own: On Virginia Woolf, Domestics, and … but the 18 years Nellie Boxall served as cook to Virginia Woolf, however, were a …
  2. Book News: Apostrophe Chaos, Abercrombie and Žižek, New Yorker (blog), March 18, 2013
    Alexis Coe on the “long and tumultuous saga” of Virginia Woolf and her servant Nellie Boxall. Langston Hughes’s collection of Harlem …
  3. theater — Virginia Woolf’s ORLANDO, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, Glens Falls Post-Star, Feb. 28, 2013
    In Sarah Ruhl’s whimsical adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel ORLANDO, we are invited to take a journey of self-discovery as Orlando lives as a duke, …
  4. [listen] Hear an unreleased Sufjan Stevens demo “Julia”, ChartAttack, March 15, 2013
    Sufjan says he recently unearthed the cassette demo in an Adidas shoebox, and “Julia” refers to Julia Prinsep Jackson, Virginia Woolf’s mother …

  5. Michelle Shocked explains allegedly anti-gay remarks, Examiner.com, March 19, 2013
    … icons including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Georgia O’Keefe, Billie Holiday, Amelia Earhart …
  6. Live, Love and Eat! Neighborfood Launches in Santa Barbara, Noozhawk
    … neighbors to live it, love it and eat in it, because as Virginia Woolf said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
  7. Philip Roth’s Eightieth Birthday Celebration, New Yorker (blog), March 20, 2013
    Orlando DVD

    Orlando DVD

    … the biographer of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, who gave a learned survey of Roth’s use of Shakespeare in his novels; Alain Finkielkraut …

  8. Sam Mills’ top 10 fictional sex changes, The Guardian, March 20, 2013 Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Orlando, Woolf’s fantastical biography, records the 400-year life of Lord Orlando. He begins as a nobleman in the …
  9. Admission, Willamette Week, March 20, 2013
    In an overstuffed subplot, Portia’s sheepish poetry-professor partner (Michael Sheen) leaves her for a Virginia Woolf scholar he’s already …
  10. What Our Memories Tell Us About Ourselves, TIME, March 20, 2013
    In her striking description of lying as a small child in her cot at St. Ives, Virginia Woolf noted that this wasn’t just her earliest memory; it was the …
  11. Emma Watson parties hard, ‘goes shopping’ in ‘Bling Ring’ trailer, Kansas CW, March 8, 2013Screen Shot 2013-03-20 at 10.54.51 PM
    So I would go from reading Virginia Woolf to [watching] Kim Kardashian. I kind of loved it, this mix of super-high and super-low culture. I think it …
  12. Women’s Rights Movement in Colombia Takes the Stage, Foghorn Online, March 19, 2013
    “Like Virginia Woolf would say, 22 years ago I resolved to have my own room,” and as an actress, Colombia’s Virginia Woolf has found her …
  13. The Making Of ‘Descender’: Andrew Wyatt on Creativity, Violin …, Noisey (blog), March 19, 2013
    There is an underlying message to that effect in Mrs. Dalloway, the Virginia Woolf novel from which the anecdote is partially taken. There are of …
  14. Belated Apology to Anton Chekhov, The Atlantic, March 19, 2013
    His work inspires adoration from readers, including writers as different as Virginia Woolf and Raymond Carver. When asked about his …
  15. Professor of book art will speak on women’s roles in printing, Santa Fe New Mexican.com, March 18, 2013
    Virginia Woolf is best known as an essayist and novelist of London’s Bloomsbury Group in the early 20th century. Less known is her and her …
  16. The Accidental Artist, Baltimore City Paper, March 19, 2013
    … the tinkering with conventional realism and syntax practiced by James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Tristan Tzara, Virginia Woolf, …
  17. Review: ‘Bates Motel’ a twisty, moody modern prequel to ‘Psycho’, Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2013
    When, in her famous essay “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf conjured the tragically compelling possibility of Shakespeare’s sister, a new …
  18. Sundance Channel’s ‘Top of the Lake’: Out of the gloom, a chilling …, Washington Post, March 17, 2013
    … asked to help with the case of Tui Mitcham, a 12-year-old rescued while wading, Virginia Woolf-style, into the frigid waters of Lake Wakatipu.
  19. Long-lost essay by ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ author discovered, News & Observer, March 18, 2013
    Stevenson devotes most of the essay to the art of capturing or even simulating reality on paper, a puzzle that Virginia Woolf and other 20th …
  20. Magical & delicious, The Recorder, Feb. 20, 2013
    This is an undated photo of British author Virginia Woolf. (AP Photo) Ashfield poet and publisher Jan Freeman found a draft of “On Being Ill’ …
  21. Author Ann Patchett coms to Writers Center Stage at the Ohio …, Plain Dealer, March 17, 2013
    In essence, Patchett is staking out a 21st-century version of Virginia Woolf’s argument in “A Room of One’s Own”: That writers (Woolf was talking …
  22. Women writers romancing the Word,
    Inquirer.net, March 15, 2013
    Move over, Virginia Woolf. For the women writers whose works are on exhibit until April 30, the most important message they wish to convey, …
  23. WBUR, March 14, 2013

    Running ahead of Virginia Woolf, Georgia O’Keefe, Amelia Earhart. Of Edith Wharton. Hemingway. A proto-feminist. Transcendentalist.

  24. Putnam overcomes adversity, wild final minutes to win …, MassLive.com, March 17, 2013
    The win was about as easy as putting together IKEA furniture while blindfolded, as simple as reading aVirginia Woolf book backwards and in a …
  25. Whatever Happened To The Real Gingers And Rosas?, NPR, March 14, 2013
    Undoubtedly the women’s movement bailed out Potter, most of whose movies — including her famously stylized adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s …
  26. Amanda Coplin’s novel path to success with ‘The Orchardist’, OregonLive.com, March 16, 2013
    Her desire to write stories dropped away and she studied novels by the masters, William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Virginia Woolf.
  27. The Xtra Diary: Berwick Street’s haggling history, West End Extra, March 15, 2013
    But it was not only hard-up Londoners who faced the schleppers and VirginiaWoolf was known to visit the stocking stalls and enjoy haggling …
  28. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review, The Guardian, March 15, 2013Girl Trouble
    (Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield were fairly ambivalent towards the suffrage movement.) Stories like this one, from Carol Dyhouse’s …
  29. Hilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women’s fiction prize, The Guardian, March 12, 2013
    “I’m not trying to make some big generalisation out of it … but if you think back to Virginia Woolfsaying that her ideal for women writers is that …
  30. New Helvetia Theatre stages deeply satisfying ‘Ordinary Days’, Sacramento Bee, March 13, 2013
    … becomes linked to Kiera Anderson’s harried Deb after he finds her daily planner stuffed with notes on her stalled thesis about Virginia Woolf.
  31. Sisters with no cause to thank their parents, Evening Standard, March 14, 2013
    Dunn, whose previous biographies include a double portrait of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, steers as gracefully as she can around the fact ..

  32. Writing Idols: Jodi Picoult, Huffington Post, March 14, 2013

    Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult

    For me, the list would consist of such names as Virginia Woolf, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Tana French, J.D. Salinger, John Irving and …

  33. Identifying Mrs Meeke, OUPblog (blog), March 13, 2013
    In twentieth-century terms, this would be roughly akin to identifying a family tie linking Virginia Woolfto Agatha Christie. But what had led …
  34. The Top Five Least-Hipster Buildings in Downtown Dallas …, D Magazine, March 12, 2013
    Black hat, black jeans, Moleskine: hipster. Flannel shirt, beard, canteen: hipster. Olde tyme bloomers,Virginia Woolf tattoo, Big Bird sneakers: …
  35. Manifesto for critical times, The Hindu, March 11, 2013
    Writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust desired independence from all and everything — including culture, family, and …
  36. London’s ‘Village’ People, Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2013
    The Bedford Estates is the largest private landowner in Bloomsbury, home to the British Museum and an intellectual hub since Virginia Woolf .
  37. Mark Haddon: ‘The London theatre world is so much more alive than …, Evening Standard, March 12, 2013
    Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness style remains his touchstone. One reviewer said that his most recent novel, The Red House, about a …
  38. Alice Walker: ‘I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity’, The Guardian, March 9, 2013
    It would be decades before I read Virginia Woolf and had her beautiful rendition of that thought, but I knew that was what I needed. The story …
  39. William Nicholson’s cultural highlights, The Guardian, March 9, 2013
    The models he used were his friends, the Bloomsbury lot, so you can spot the likes of Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. What I love …
  40. Small Talk: Amity Gaige, Financial Times, March 8, 2013
    John Updike, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Nabokov, Edward Albee. Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with? Hugh Jackman. He could sing …

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Virginia Woolf, Eliot and technology in the classroom

Posted in music, Woolf Courses, Woolf online, tagged , , , , , , on Wednesday 30 January 2013| Leave a Comment »

Several Virginia Woolf/Modernism-related items here, all gleaned from Facebook friends who teach Woolf in the college classroom.

  • Elisa Kay Sparks and her students are building an iPad app called WoolfPlace that will provide maps, histories, references, pictures, links and videos for different sites in Woolf’s life and works.
  • Anne Fernald’s students are blogging about Woolf as part of the undergraduate Woolf elective course Fernald is teaching at Fordham University this spring. You can find their posts at 3504 Woolf. Fernald kicked off the course by playing Florence and the Machine’s “What the Water Gave Me.”
  • Also from Fernald is the news that Faber has launched a new “Wasteland” app that includes the full text of the poem, a variety of audio readings (including two by T.S. Eliot himself, and one by Viggo Mortensen), plus a video rendition.

 

Florence + the Machine – What The Water Gave Me [Official Music Video] from Back Alley Journals on Vimeo.

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Happy 131st birthday, Virginia Woolf

Posted in Happy birthday, music, Woolf birthday, Woolf online, Woolf quote, Woolf sightings, Woolf's short fiction, tagged , , , on Friday 25 January 2013| 6 Comments »

Today is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. It is now 131 years since she was born on Jan. 25, 1882, at 12:15 p.m., inwoolf quote Kensington, London, and birthday wishes are coming to her from around the globe, courtesy of the Web.

In honor of her special day, the Christian Science Monitor has put up this post: Virginia Woolf: 10 quotes on her birthday. The piece credits her for having made a “major impact on the shaping of the modern novel” and being “an early advocate of women’s rights.”

And the New York Public Library has selections of Woolf’s novels that you can read online in celebration. Just add cake.

HuffPost Books has the Woolf quote graphic at top right, which I found thanks to my friend Margaret of Kent State University, posted on its Facebook page.

mixtapeBloggers who have posted birthday wishes include the Book Riot  and this blog. And Lifelounge has put together a Virginia Woolf mixtape in honor of her 131st, along with this note of thanks, “Hey VW, thanks for writing all kinds of things we didn’t know how to say! Also, how did you live to 131?”

If you live near London or Wilton, Conn., you can also attend one of these celebrations:

Here is what sounds like a birthday wishes, as articulated by Woolf in her short story, “The String Quartet,” which is included in Monday or Tuesday (1921):

Iwant to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, drink thin, sharp wine. Or an indecent story, now—I could relish that. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Read more about past birthday celebrations for Virginia:

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Two bands inspired by Virginia Woolf

Posted in music, The Mark on the Wall, tagged , , on Thursday 3 May 2012| 3 Comments »

Many musicians have been inspired by Virginia Woolf. Here are two more.

  1. Right here in the U.S. of A., the Seattle band Modest Mouse got its name from a passage in Woolf’s story “The Mark on the Wall.” Here’s how it reads: “I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.”

    Modest Mouse

  2. And in Italy, the eclectic band Talismanstone counts Woolf as one of many inspirations for its lyrics. The group hails from Ravenna.

Here are links to other music with a connection to Woolf. They are also listed in the right sidebar under the heading “Music.”

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