I have written about Virginia Woolf and fashion before, but this time is different. This time the garment could bring Woolf’s words closer to our hearts. Literally.
But fashionistas who don the simple sheath dress made out of recycled shipping paper won’t have long to enjoy it. Why, you ask? Because it is designed to disintegrate.
The wearer’s body heat causes the outer shell of the dress to wear away. And what’s left is a layer covered with handwritten quotes from famous folks like Charles Dickens, Dalai Lama, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Mahatma Ghandi, Agatha Christie — and, of course, Virginia Woolf.
As you can see from the drawing at the left, the Woolf quote is located front and center on the bodice, close to the heart.
Said to mimic “supple leather sheath,” the dress was created by designer Sylvia Heisel, in collaboration with Brooklyn, New York’s Paper No. 9‘s Rebecca Cole Marshall.
Read more about Woolf and fashion on Blogging Woolf:
A luxury yurt room at Priory Bay Hotel on the Isle of Wight, UK., Globe and Mail
… Funnel Ferry with three pink stretch Hummers carrying 30 women including Jade Jagger, Sadie Frost, Samantha Morton and Daphne Guinness – a far cry from the staid and stoic solitude Lord Tennyson and Virginia Woolf once sought on this peaceful isle. …
The best American nonrequired buying, C-Ville Weekly
There’re tales about how he foolishly sold two signed Virginia Woolf’s that he’d bought from a blind man in Manhattan, stories about browsing for books with his Saint Bernard, the one about how Lawrence Ferlinghetti came in and said, “It’s an honor to …
A bodice ripper without the bodice, Stuff.co.nz (blog)
This means the fridge has played home to everything thing from Darwin to Ian Wishart, Judy Blume to Virginia Woolf. Naturally The Bible has made an appearance and that other tome of spiritual guidance The Secret. And of course, it’s not a party without ..
REVIEW: A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers, Macleans.ca
An author, Trefusis is better remembered as the inspiration behind the Sasha character in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and the lover of poet Vita Sackville-West. Their intense affair, which included stints of abandoning their husbands to travel as a …
Was Keynes ‘Keynesian’? Hardly, MiamiHerald.com
Without him we may not have the novels of EM Forster and Virginia Woolf, nor the artworks of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. Keynes also had an eye for a bargain. Seeing a collection of impressionist paintings for sale in Paris, he persuaded …
Baby’s Long, Long Way, TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas Virginia Woolf called her masterpiece Middlemarch, “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” and Emily Dickenson wrote, “What do I think of Middlemarch? What do I think of glory?” What challenges do you face as a modern actress in …
Sandman Meditations – Brief Lives: Chapter 9, Boomtron.com
Brief Lives is a graphic novel in the way that Virginia Woolf’s poetically-structured The Waves is an ungraphic novel. Actually, there’s more straightforward narrative in Brief Lives than in The Waves, so perhaps my point is pointless, but I’m going to …
god bless liz lochhead, oran mor, glasgow, Herald Scotland
It happened to Alice B Toklas and Virginia Woolf, and now, on the eve of a revival of her 1987 play, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Scotland’s Makar receives similar treatment in Martin McCardie’s new play. As you might imagine, …
I won’t let anyone spoil my paradise, Irish Independent Virginia Woolf thought every woman should have “money and a room of one’s own”. Lucca is my room. Much as I love my Mr C, I have spent much of my life living alone and sometimes I crave solitude. I hadn’t been in Lucca alone since we met. …
How Long Has the Socialist Movement Been Going On?, The New American
… great playwright; HG Wells, the author of The Open Conspiracy; Annie Besant, the Theosophist occultist; Graham Wallas, author of The Great Society; Leonard and Virginia Woolf, eminent writers; and Ramsay MacDonald, organizer of the Labour Party. …
Festival faceoff: Cronenberg and Polley top poll, Toronto.com
Albert Nobbs: “This brilliant recipe of gender bending is ripped from the pages of Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf . . . You know this is going to be special when the same director has given us priceless episodes of The Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
Emeli Sandé and the women making darkside pop, The Guardian
Even Florence Welch’s new single, What the Water Gave Me, alludes to the suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf, a favourite author of both Sandé and La Grange, and takes its title from a painting by Frida Kahlo …
It’s not easy being Greene, Los Angeles Times
He became better known as a character, in work by other authors such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, than for his own writing. His bad example provides a warning against six of the seven deadly sins. But it also provides a sense of perspective. …
Literary Late Bloomers, Huffington Post Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway at 43, and To the Lighthouse at 45. More recently, Saul Bellow published Mr. Sammler’s Planet at 55, and Humboldt’s Gift at 60. Philip Roth published American Pastoral at 64, and John Updike, The Witches of …
The Go-Between at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Yorkshire Evening Post
They’d just done Virginia Woolf and when they were in Oxford they weren’t being too pestered as they usually were. “Anyway, we were working on a sound recording of the production one night and it was on the eve of my 22nd birthday so, …
Old Boys Club, The Smart Set
… getting out a glue stick and pasting some women into History of Art? Every five to 10 years, someone tries to establish a place for Mina Loy in the canon of modernist literature, next to TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. …
Guest Post: The Secret Life of Words – in London, Anglotopia.net
The most obvious group of authors associated with Bloomsbury is The Bloomsbury Group –Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Virginia’s sister Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey etc… They used to live there and attract visits from their friends, …
Safely Above the New Orleans Parade, New York Times
More than eight decades ago, Virginia Woolf said that for a woman to write, she needs a room of her own, her symbol for physical space, money and freedom from interruption. Culture is not the only reason such a room eludes women’s grasp; their instinct …
If only Kate had stuck to a nice iceberg lettuce, Daily Mail
1915: Skinny London author Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out. At the book’s launch, friends and colleagues express concern over Virginia’s gaunt appearance. ‘She must have dropped two sizes in a year,’ says one leading poet. …
STREET DOGS: Economists are like dentists, Business Day
Civilisation — the things that were worthwhile — were the novels of his friend Virginia Woolf, the paintings of his friend Duncan Grant, the dances of his wife the ballerina Lydia Lopokova…. The good and the beautiful — civilisation — were the …
Closing the (Political) Salon, Cincinnati CityBeat
In the early 20th century, she says, similar exchanges happened at Gertrude Stein’s salon for artists and writers, the Paris existentialists’ cafe Les Deux Magots, and Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury Group in London. So a decade ago, galvanized by a touch …
RTS REVIEW: ‘PRIVATE LIVES’,Buzzine
Mr. Douglas and Ms. Kinsolving are captivating as two lovers who, at times, appear as if they have a case of the Virginia Woolf. Mr. Douglas positively reeks of upper class sophistication and class, while Ms. Kinsolving brilliantly and confidently …
Three things pop out at me from this week’s list of Woolf sightings. The first is the mention of Virginia in a story about young female artists who represent “unmentionable” female body parts in their work. See #22.
The second is the mention of Woolf’s use of the word “scrolloping,” an item that drew the recent attention of the VWoolf Listserv. See #7.
The third is a new song about Virginia Woolf. It is one of 13 cuts on a new album due out Nov. 7 by Florence + The Machine. The song’s title, “What the Water Gave Me,” comes from a 1938 oil painting by Frida Kahlo. See #17-21 and listen to the song below.
Thought-Provoking Highbrow Magazine Launches, MarketWatch (press release) Virginia Woolf once described a highbrow as “…the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.” “It is that pursuit of an idea that inspires us at the magazine to critique and analyze …
Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow, Movie City News Virginia Woolf defined the middlebrow reader as “betwixt and between,” devoted not to art for its own sake but to “money, fame, power, or prestige.” In other words, the middlebrow is not quite as smart as the true highbrow and not as spirited as the …
Much ado about nothing, Boston Globe
That would not necessarily be a difficulty: Think of Samuel Johnson’s “Life of Mr. Richard Savage,” or the many marginal yet unforgettable subjects in Virginia Woolf’s “Common Reader.” Yet unlike the treatment of his parents in “Basil Street,” …
A fascination with real lives, Boston Globe
I admire Virginia Woolf, but I’m not sold on her novels. I’d rather read her diaries, journals, and letters. Henry James – finally a man – I love him. Last year I read “What Maisie Knew.” I was relieved that I understood it. James is hard. …
MEMOIR: A fun and gossipy look at British bluebloods, Minneapolis Star Tribune
He shows the ties between Beckett’s illegitimate daughter by Keppel, novelist Violet Trefusis, and Violet’s lesbian lover, poet Vita Sackville-West, then links them both to Virginia Woolf. He manages, too, to find a long association between Vita’s …
OMG, the charabanc has been plutoed, Telegraph.co.uk
But I am likely to need help with Samuel Beckett’s use of “athambia”, or Virginia Woolf’s of “scrolloping”. In any case, predictions about what will last are risky. In 2007 Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary chose “pod-slurping” as its word of the year. …
The New Atheism, The Guardian
Melville, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Beckett, Camus – and in our own time José Saramago, Marilynne Robinson and JM Coetzee – have all shown sustained interest in questions of belief and unbelief; …
The dentist & Dr. Seuss, Boston Globe
“But it’s like minor works by Virginia Woolf or Shakespeare or Jane Austen. They may be minor, but they’re the minor works of a genius,” Nel said. In order to bring these stories to a fresh audience, Cohen first needed to prove his own credibility. …
Bridge Views: Grounded in 1980, Patch.com
“If you want to learn point-of-view, read Henry James; if you want to learn irony, read Jane Austen; if you want to learn what Hell smells like, read John Milton; if you want to understand the importance of using punctuation, read Virginia Woolf—she …
Interview: Lynne McTaggart, Author of The Bond, Blogcritics.org (blog)
Twentieth century writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, but also so-called ‘new journalists’ – Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Hunter Thompson, Truman Capote – who wrote non-fiction using fictional techniques. My heroes in journalism were …
Why women are enjoying being home alone, The Age VIRGINIA WOOLF thought every woman writer needed a room of her own. But many women are now opting for an entire home of one’s own. Women are twice as likely as men to live alone for more than a decade, and report greater levels of …
Florence + The Machine, new album due Nov 7, Street North East (blog)
It’s about water in all forms and all bodies. It’s about a lot of things; Virginia Woolf creeps into it, and of course Frieda Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title.” ‘What The Water Gave Me’ it’s available now on iTunes.
This week in new music, FasterLouder
For a tune named after a Frida Kahlo painting and featuring reference to Virginia Woolf it still has festival anthem written all over it. Let’s hope we get to see her again this summer. James Blake and Justin ‘Bon Iver’ Vernon met at this year’s South …
Florence And The Machine Reveal New Track, RTT News
While speaking about the track with NME.com, Florence Welch revealed that the track was inspired by the story of writer Virginia Woolf, who committed suicide by drowning. It also shares a title with a painting by legendary Mexican artist and feminist …
Hear Florence and the Machine’s new song ‘What The Water Gave Me’ – audio, NME.com
The track is named after a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and has also been part inspired by the death of author Virginia Woolf, who drowned herself in a river by filling her coat pockets with stones. You can see Florence working on the album …
The naming of parts: a new frankness about vaginas, Evening Standard
Chicago created 39 place settings for famous female “guests” – including Sappho, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf – with labias rising up out of the plates themselves. The new craft-led work is as much about playfulness as a po-faced “comment” on …
Orlando, St George’s West, Edinburgh, The Independent
Adapting Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel, which follows the title character through four centuries and a sex change, is no mean feat. It has the potential to be epic, but Darryl Pinckney’s script for theatre company Cryptic goes in …
A ‘World of Taste’ hits Rishon Letzion, Ha’aretz
By Elka Looks Tags: Israel culture Virginia Woolf once said, “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” After attending Rishon Letzion’s ‘World of Taste’ fair, I could not agree more. Over twenty of Israel’s leading …
Tale of loss and friendship cuts to the quick, Independent Online
Today, she is Senior Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and the distinguished biographer of TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and, most recently, the acclaimed poet Emily Dickinson. …
How One Book Changed My Life, Huffington Post
I have most all of Virginia Woolf’s books on one shelf. There are books by Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Julia Alvarez, James Baldwin, John Irving and dozens of other favorite authors. There is my friend Peg’s wonderful novel, “Spinning Will. …
Fill up your shelves at the Locust Grove book sale! [Books], Louisville.com
My own personal finds from past sales have included titles from Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov. And, of course, no shortage of Shakespeare. Tax deductible book donations will also be accepted at any time …
Stigma should be removed from mental illness, Cincinnati.com
Provided Abraham Lincoln, Virginia Woolf, Eugene O’Neill, Leo Tolstoy, Tennessee Williams, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Carrie Fisher, Mike Wallace, Patty Duke, Demi Lovato, Catherine Zeta-Jones – all talented and gifted individuals, …
Book festival: Andrew O’Hagan, Edinburgh Festivals
Last night’s topic was landscape, which Bakewell addressed with Olivia Laing, author of To The River, a meditation in travel, nature and history along the course of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned herself in 1941. ..
Offerings from Edinburgh’s International Book Festival, STV Local
At 7 pm she’ll be reading from her book To the River, the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over 60 years after Woolf’s death, Olivia Laing walked the river from source to sea. …
ED2011 Theatre Review: Sailing On (ShadyJane), ThreeWeeks News
It revolves around a girl’s poignantly suppressed memory coming to light with the help of a pretend Ophelia and Virginia Woolf. Though beautifully enacted and adeptly enhanced by the use of multimedia, it was not the performance itself that most stood …
Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights: Bronte vs Bronte, Telegraph.co.uk Virginia Woolf once said that, in Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë had gigantic ambition that was summed up by the sentence “You the eternal powers…” but she didn’t know how to finish it. I think there’s something in that. For me, Wuthering Heights is …
Robert Fulford: Postmodern love?, National Post (blog)
Books appeared under otherwise identical titles about Nietzsche, WB Yeats, Virginia Woolf, St. Augustine, Jesus and many more. Postmodernism, while it no longer so freely speaks its name, remains the operative principle beneath much of contemporary …
ED2011 Theatre Review: Orlando (Cryptic), ThreeWeeks News
Adapted from Virginia Woolf’s novel, this production is especially adept in its synthesis of Woolf’s linguistic virtuosity with contemporary sound and projection techniques. Although the show’s pace lags occasionally, Judith Williams impresses with a …
A New Life of EM Forster, Xtra.ca
While his contemporaries were DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury circle and Christopher Isherwood, a new generation of Americans also longed to meet him. People such as artist Paul Cadmus, actor William Roerick and painter Jared French …
Play’s a slap in face for parents, Macedon Ranges Weekly
She says the play is like “Virginia Woolf on steroids” and audiences will experience a “rollercoaster of emotions. It’s a fun play and it disintegrates into madness!” Ms Boyd said it had already received much praise from the Melbourne theatre network. …
One of today’s Woolf sightings — #10 — claims that Penshurst Place and Gardens inspired Virginia Woolf. I wondered how.
So I explored the location’s literary links Web page and learned that Woolf visited the property with Vita Sackville-West, who was then living 22 miles away at Sissinghurst Castle and Gardens. Woolf later shared her personal impressions of the nearly deserted house and garden in a 1940 diary entry, specifically mentioning “the ‘shell of lady Pembroke’s lute – like half a fig’.”
In other news, Woolf is sighted in the literary canon. Edinburgh publisher Canongate’s canon, that is. Canongate is repackaging some of its titles in a new series called The Canon. Included among the 2012 titles is Woolf’s Orlando, with an introduction by Tilda Swinton. See #9.
And finally, Woolf has been sighted on stage in the ladies’ loo, along with Shakespeare’s Ophelia, in a production called Sailing On. Get the details in #12 and on the Events page.
All Made Up by Janice Galloway – review, The Guardian
For Virginia Woolf, “life writing” seems to have meant biography, but the phrase has expanded since her time to include a wide range of what Galloway refers to in All Made Up as “putative non-fiction”, including memoirs and diaries. …
Callahan’s ‘Consummation of Dirk’ wins Starcherone Prize, Buffalo News (blog)
The gifted child contemplating murder, the husband drowning in melancholy, the pro basketball athlete finding his road to Damascus all emerge from adept torrents of words that bear comparison with Virginia Woolf and David Foster Wallace,” wrote Mason …
A Room of Miss Mozart’s Own, Cinespect
In “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf uses the extended metaphor of “Shakespeare’s sister” to describe the hardships faced by artistically brilliant women whose opportunities are stifled and curtailed when compared to men with similar talents. …
Too much grief, The Guardian
When, in Jacob’s Room, the grieving widow Betty Flanders sits on the beach and writes a letter, Virginia Woolf gives us her tears thus: “The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr Connor’s yacht was …
Joan Bakewell prepares to solve the world’s problems, Telegraph.co.uk
They range from The Ego Trick by philosophy’s most waspish thinker, Julian Baggini, to a lingeringly lyrical account of walking the length of the Ouse River – haunted by the shade of Virginia Woolf, who drowned herself in its waters. …
Canongate to launch The Canons, The Bookseller
Among the 2012 titles are Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (introduced by Tilda Swinton), Richard Brautigan’s Sombrero Fallout (introduced by Jarvis Cocker) and The Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova (selected and introduced by Jo Shapcott).
Island says goodbye to its gardener, Guernsey Press and Star (subscription)
It has inspired such literary luminaries as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf. James will be assisting the head gardener in the design and care of more than 51 acres of gardens. ‘I was at Writtle College from 2003 to …
One Minute With: Alison Pick, novelist and poet, The Independent
This changes on a dime, but today I’ll say Virginia Woolf for her range, her nuance, her nostalgia, her sensuality. It’s a tiny little bedroom in my home in Toronto. When we bought it, we were told it was a bedroom but we couldn’t fit a bed into it. …
Sailing On, The Skinny
Eventually the women introduce themselves, and we realise we are actually lucky to be in the presence of two female icons,
Meeting in the ladies loo in "Sailing On"
Virginia Woolf and Ophelia – both missing, presumed drowned. Together they explain their mission to help a frequent visitor, …
CORNELL PLANTATIONS FALL LECTURE SERIES LINEUP, GardenNews.biz (press release)
Vita Sackville-West, a prolific poet, novelist, and memoirist, considered herself foremost a writer, but her enduring reputation rests on the imprint of her provocative personality on the life and writing of Virginia Woolf, and on her stirring …
Darwin the Writer, By George Levine, The Independent
What’s more, Levine highlights his effect upon later work, with close analysis of Hardy’s The Woodlanders and an adroit glance at Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”. There is also a persuasive take on Wildean paradoxes, and, brilliantly, …
Dinner in vineyards for a good cause, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The outdoor pizza oven will be working hard and, for dessert, JJ Wilson, retired SSU professor of English and renowned Virginia Woolf scholar, will prepare honeydew melon drenched in absinthe and topped with a chiffonade of mint. As of press time, …
Hollywood beauties go Plain Jane for roles, msnbc.com
To play real-life literary figure Virginia Woolf, Kidman wore a prosthetic nose and dark brown hair. Not much change by some measures, but the effect was one of transformation, allowing Kidman to get lost in Woolf’s sudden presence, and win the best …
Back to School The Backup Plan, Salt Lake City Weekly
I like art history, I like film, I like Virginia Woolf (OK, I love her. Don’t hate), but do I love them enough to spend $50000 on them? Thus, therefore, ergo, in conclusion, there isn’ta backup plan; there never was a backup plan. …
Canberra Conversations: Thomas Keneally, ABC Online
“He’d have music evenings and he took the honours English boys down the back of the room, opened a cupboard and there was all the good stuff: Graeme Greene, Evelyn Waugh, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and that’s when I felt the world expand greatly, …
Sophie Gurney, Telegraph.co.uk
Her mother, Gwen Raverat, granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was the leading woodcut artist of her time, and her close friends included Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke, André Gide and Stanley Spencer. This milieu, combined with the influence of the …
Literary Criticism and Generics of the Text published, Iran Book News Agency
The book consists of chapters “Virginia Woolf’s Room”, “TS Eliot’s Literary Dictatorship”, “Types of Literary Criticism”, “Classic Novel and New Novel”, “Meaning and Visual Artistic Significance”, “Literature and Philosophy”, “Understanding Myths”, …
"Literary Criticism and Generics of the Text" by Iranian author Abdol-Ali Dastgheib
@EmeliSande chats to MSN’s @TinieTinah (part 2), MSN Music UK (blog)
On my left arm I have ‘A Room of One’s Own’ which is a Virginia Woolf book that I love. And on the back of my neck I have ‘Did our last castle look like this?’ which came from thinking past lives, people you’ve created with before and stuff like that. …
Woman battles bipolar to publish ghost story, Birmingham Mail
The winner will be announced at a ceremony at Charleston House, East Sussex, the former home of author Virginia Woolf. Jan is now planning to run a series of writing workshops aiming to encourage other women into print. And she is being supported in …
When fiction becomes a work of art, Sydney Morning Herald
Bell designed a number for books by her sister, Virginia Woolf, and her whimsically abstract style became emblematic of Woolf’s publishing house, Hogarth Press. In some of the great covers of that period, you can see cubism and expressionism at work. …
Friday, August 26, eTaiwan News … Julio Cortazar, Argentinian writer (1914-1984); Branford Marsalis, US jazz musician (1960–); Macaulay Culkin, US actor (1980–). Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded _ Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (1882-1941).
A space of your own, Malaysia Star
The experience of restricted physical space led me to re-read Virginia Woolf’s seminal lecture, A Room Of One’s Own. In 1928, when Woolf was asked to speak about women and fiction to an audience at Girton College, Cambridge, she decided to seek the …
`The Help’ is middlebrow? So be it. Count me in., Los Angeles Times
Virginia Woolf defined the middlebrow reader as “betwixt and between,” devoted not to art for its own sake but to “money, fame, power, or prestige.” In other words, the middlebrow is not quite as smart as the true highbrow and not as spirited as the …
For Love of the Game, New Yorker (blog)
In her essay “How Should One Read a Book,” Virginia Woolf furnishes some magnificent advice: Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and …
Never mind the looters, what about the ‘fascists’?, Spiked
Using words that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Virginia Woolf’s diaries on one of her off-days, one radical journalist claimed that ‘in Enfield a mob of white men swarmed through the streets chanting “England”’. Chanting ‘England’? …
We are in the midst of the dog days of summer, so everyone is getting in on the reading — and reviewing — action. As a result, Virginia Woolf’s novels are being both praised (#15) and panned (#3).
But I can’t stop my praise there. Frances Evangelista of the Nonsuch Book blog, plans to read all 42 titles in the series this month and write a review of each on her literary blog. So far, she has kept her promise. She has posted 13 reviews.
Scroll down to #44 for more about Heidi.
Neil Cooper Keith Bruce, Herald Scotland
Once swept away, however, the party of the year erupts into life with a guest list of 20th-century icons including Edith Piaf, Frida Kahlo, a well-oiled Picasso, a soggy Virginia Woolf taking stones from her pockets, Neil Armstrong and Muhammed Ali. …
Coverboy: Mondo, Metro Weekly
A framed photo of Helen Thomas, a trashy Virginia Woolf novel and a cheeseburger. Where do you keep the condoms and lube? 30 Rock. I relate a lot to Liz Lemon. What was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid? The Fairly OddParents. …
Summer reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Guardian (blog)
I was camping in France after my first year at university, To the Lighthouse was on my summer reading list, and I clearly remember feeling startled by the time I had finished the first page. by Virginia Woolf Looking back at that opening now, …
Hoss Intropia Fall/Winter 2011 Lookbook, becomegorgeous.com Virginia Woolf said once that “dresses, though they may seem frivolous, have a much more important role then merely covering our body. They also change our vision of the world and the vision the world has of us”. Following this philosophy, the Spanish …
A very English modernism, Art Newspaper
Whether the works of Betjeman, John Piper, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, the Sitwells, Virginia Woolf and Evelyn Waugh add up to a kind of soft modernism reflecting the English character and climate is an interesting question. …
Donnelly’s ‘Rose’ trilogy comes to its epic conclusion, The Daily News Online (blog)
History and literature buffs will delight at cameos by Virginia Woolf, TE Lawrence and others. But whether readers are enamored of history or not, they are in for a smashing good story regardless.” Library Journal: “Donnelly skillfully integrates …
Lev Grossman on Exploring Magic, Moment by Moment, Wall Street Journal (blog)
Speakeasy sat down with Grossman to discuss the new challenges his characters face in the sequel, how he began writing fantasy, and why Virginia Woolf is as much an influence on his work as JK Rowling. At the beginning of “The Magician King,” where do …
God Is a Character, New Yorker (blog)
It seems apt that, in evoking the appeal of religion even to nonbelievers, Wood cites a work of art (in the event, Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse”). Art is the closest thing that atheists have to religion, and it’s the devotion to art that ought …
The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History, Huffington Post (blog)
Classics from that period by authors who entered the world in cooler months included James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925), LM Montgomery’s The Blue Castle (1926), Woolf’s To …
All of Edinburgh is a stage – even the loos, BBC News
But men are also invited to catch the “chance meeting with Ophelia and Virginia Woolf“. Ms Lampard said: “Every man who has come in so far has commented on how exciting it is to be allowed into this sacred and secret space.” Another unusual location is …
Across the literary pages, Spectator.co.uk (blog)
Something unpleasant in the woodshed: Rachel Cooke reveals what Virginia Woolf thought of Stella Gibbons’s comic masterpiece, Cold Comfort Farm. ‘In 1930 a young journalist called Stella Gibbons started a new job on the Lady, “the magazine for …
Lev Grossman, A.V. Club Chicago
So for me, massively influential are obviously James Joyce, another reinterpreter of Homer, and Virginia Woolf. My prose comes more from the Americans, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, rather obviously. The other influence is Evelyn Waugh. …
Holiday Reading, Daily Mail (blog)
Joseph Conrad, TS Eliot and Virginia Woolf were kind about him. What’s more, his books sold enormously well on both sides of the Atlantic, he was knighted, and he became very rich, with a lovely Lakeland house in his favourite part of England, …
Secularism and its discontents., New Yorker
I think of these anxieties as the Virginia Woolf Question, after a passage in that most metaphysical of novels “To the Lighthouse,” when the painter Lily Briscoe is at her easel, mourning her late friend Mrs. Ramsay. Next to her sits the poet, …
London site of Lawrence Durrell 100th anniversary celebration, Examiner.com
Bloomsbury is a vibrant historic district made most famous by a group of turn-of-the-century writers that included Virginia Woolf and EM Forster (“Bloomsbury Set”), economist John Maynard Keynes and the artist Roger Fry. Goodenough College has been …
Posted On Sunday, August 07, 2011 at 07:50:22 PM, Bangalore Mirror
In her wonderful book of essay-poems, Men in the Off Hours, poet Anne Carson begins with an essay called ‘Ordinary Time: Virginia Woolf and Thucydides on War’. Greek historian
Thucydides wrote about the Peloponnesian War and in Book 2 of his History, …
Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm was just the beginning, The Guardian
The following year the novel even won the Prix Étranger of the Prix Femina-Vie heureuse, a surprising literary award for a comic novel, and one that infuriated Virginia Woolf (“I was enraged to see they gave the £40 to Gibbons,” Woolf wrote to …
Unfaithful reader, The Hindu
Carver and Chekhov Raymond Carver in turn loved Chekhov, another hero of mine, as did Virginia Woolf. This seemed to place them in a nice love triangle, which I, in love with the trio, felt was a good way for them to be. While Carver wrote of “the …
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extended puberty without the blues, The Australian
IN her 1924 essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown Virginia Woolf declared that “On or about December, 1910, human character changed”. Arch, polemical and disingenuous, the line nevertheless began an argument about character and …
Feminism today: The long and winding road, The Guardian (blog)
And what on earth does Virginia Woolf have to do with Orwell? You may like her work or not but if you mean to suggest one is a pale shadow of the other then you clearly know little about it. Women have hardly ever been according equal rights and …
Expressway: Cabin, sweet log cabin, Newsday (subscription)
While I agreed with Virginia Woolf on the necessity of having a room of one’s own, I knew that, for me, responsibility for family was paramount. My “room” was wherever I could grab a pencil and paper and write. Although happiness comes from within, …
Dominique Woolf packs a punch, Mirror.co.uk
Raised by her father, Dominique is a distant relative of troubled writer Virginia Woolf. Until the age of nine she lived in the Middle East, where she made her TV debut singing with her dad. “It was on a show called Aunty Lucy, the equivalent of Blue …
This Season’s ‘Project Runway’ Includes A Local Face. Patch.com
DE: Always in my mind are heroines of the past, Annie Oakley, Katherine Hepburn and Virginia Woolf. These strong women has served as my moral and style icons. DE: Beautiful, functional, empowering pieces that nod to my background in fine art and …
‘The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London’ book launches, Time Out London
In short, we live in this city in a bookish way, haunted, seduced or cheered up by the characters we’ve met in novels, poems, plays and non-fiction – and when we walk around Bloomsbury or up Fleet Street we do so with Virginia Woolf and George Gissing. …
Theatre Ad Infinitum,The Skinny
Here a woman sings a cappella about her life, depression and suicide, inspired to the works and lives of Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. If Odyssey is a breathtaking proof of versatility by the performer, The Big Smoke’s dark, introspective narration …
My PC Needs , ESP, Slate Magazine
It doesn’t just offer suggestions for keywords, as other browsers do, but actual results—when I type Virginia W, there’s a link to the Wikipedia entry on Virginia Woolf right there in the drop-down list. Google Instant, the search engine’s system to …
Preparing for Success, Huffington Post (blog)
I end the class with a quote from Virginia Woolf: “The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults… but in the immense persuasiveness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective.” What does that mean?
When ‘Everything must go’ includes coffee, courtesy and jobs, Baltimore Sun Virginia Woolf. Or taking time to peruse the bargain book racks, with all the $9.99 children’s books about the universe or Learn to Play a Harmonica kits you could want. Where will I go to find cool last-minute birthday or Christmas presents that don’t …
The Stranger’s Child shows us that history is written in the margins, The Guardian
In this context, I often recall the use of the first world war in Virginia Woolf’s To the
Lighthouse. This first major global conflict happens in the margins of the pivotal central section, aptly titled “Time Passes”. Ten years elapse, and much happens …
Literary Life: July 31, Telegraph.co.uk
They are all children’s stories written by, respectively, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and Mary Shelley. Publishers Weekly ranks them alongside TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince. …
Dog stories for the dog days of summer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog) … Brenda Aloff’s “Canine Body Language: Intrepreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog,” “The Dog Whisperer” by Paul Owens and “Shaggy Muses” by Maureen Adams (five
women writers and their dogs, including Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf). …
Two Great Summer Reads, Patch.com
I had very little trouble following the gist of the narration (Virginia Woolf, for example, is much more difficult). It unfolds like a puzzle that slowly and continuously reveals itself. I was at times bowled over by Egan’s beautiful prose. …
