We know Virginia Woolf made it on The Daily Show, but has she ever been mentioned on Saturday Night Live? Apparently she and other women writers were in the script last fall, but they didn’t make the cut.
Jezebel.comreports that when Tina Fey hosted SNL on Oct. 17, her tribute to women writers that ended up as a parody was eliminated from the show.
Here’s a bit of what writers said about Woolf: “You know who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Any home boy with a pair of eyeballs.”
Nine days worth of Woolf sightings here. Some are difficult to understand, like Kirstie Alley’s claim that she will do a TV series that is “sort of Virginia Woolf.” Others are the usual — references to Woolf’s writing, Woolf reading, Woolf’s mental state, and Woolf-inspired plays and music. Oh, and a new book on the River Ouse.
Virginia Woolf’s Words, a Singer’s Voice, New York Times This astringent line, about Thomas Hardy’s funeral, is from the diary of Virginia Woolf, and also from Dominick Argento’s classic 1974 song cycle, “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.” Jennifer Johnson Cano The mezzo-soprano, accompanied by Christopher …
Hay Festival has its own blogger, Telegraph.co.uk
Read Virginia Woolf’s story ‘A Mark On The Wall’ for proof. Reader, I got a job. A dream of a job! The offer came from Literature Wales, formerly known as Academi, a beautiful institution run by wizards who love books and don’t seem to mind …
Behind the Beat: Horse Stories, Valley Advocate
These days she draws motivation from the likes of Catherine Ribeiro, Kim Gordon, Ally Harris, Virginia Woolf and “teenagers.” Kahn has been known to throw anything and everything into her work—even kitchen appliances—to complement Horsebladder’s core …
Save Ferris: Pop-Culture Origins Of 16 Famous Band Names, Houston Press (blog)
… on a speech-therapy exercise he was forced to repeat as a child, Brock actually chose the name “Modest Mouse” via a passage from Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall,” rearranging words from the line “the minds of modest, mouse-colored people. …
Dear Book Lover: Critically Acclaimed but Almost Forgotten, Wall Street Journal Virginia Woolf called their work “a mixture of geniality and sentiment stuck together with a sticky slime of calf’s-foot jelly.” I don’t know about the calf’s-foot jelly, but I don’t mind the occasional geniality and sentiment. …
Artists profile, Calgary Herald
With a nod to Virginia Woolf’s essay, A Room of One’s Own, Toronto-based artist Virginia Mak offers a series of photographs that comment on the conditions required to engage in the creative process. …
Edna O’Brien’s Haunted at Sydney Opera House, StreetCorner
Her plays include A Pagan Place (Royal Court, London), Virginia (on the life and writings of Virginia Woolf at Haymarket, London), Iphigenia (Crucible, Sheffield), Our Father (Almeida, London), Family Butchers (Magic Theatre, San Francisco) and …
Dramatic Paws: JR Ackerley, The Independent
He persuaded many of the leading writers of the time to become regular contributors: Forster, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell, Wyndham Lewis, Kenneth Clark, Maynard Keynes, Geoffrey Grigson, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, …
crazy life of Gérard Depardieu, The Independent
But I also learnt a lot from female writers, like Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin. I prefer them to, say, Hemingway, and I would always prefer them. Although I very much like F Scott Fitzgerald, I would prefer Colette, for example. …
Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of ’65 (1665), Wall Street Journal
Her situation recalls that of the hypothetical sister that Virginia Woolf imagined for William Shakespeare in “A Room of One’s Own,” a brilliant woman denied education or self-expression. “Tend to your huswifery,” Bethia’s father tells her, …
How Writers Build the Brand, New York Times
The frumpy Virginia Woolf even went on a “Pretty Woman”-style shopping expedition at French couture houses in London with the magazine’s fashion editor in 1925. But the tradition of self-promotion predates the camera by millenniums. In 440 BC or so, …
Magical Messi leaves Mourinho’s Real reeling, American Chronicle
Thus wrote one of the great British writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf in her highly acclaimed ‘Mrs Dalloway’, but the same could well have been applied to football and the Champions League semifinal …
The Big Smoke comes to Aberystwyth, News Wales
The one woman play is inspired by the lives and works of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and American poet Anne Sexton, The show is performed by Canadian actor Amy Nostbakken and directed by Nir Paldi. An original and unforgettable piece of theatre, …
Classical Music/Opera Listings for April 29-May 5, New York Times
That organization is now bringing her to Merkin Hall with a terrifically varied program, including a Porpora aria, Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer,” Ravel’s “Cinq Melodies Populaires Greques,” and Dominick Argento’s “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. …
Rae Meadows’ ‘Mothers and Daughters’ a tender and perceptive tale, Madison.com
It’s no coincidence that Iris is reading Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” as she prepares for her own death. Iris is in many ways a typical woman of her generation — divorced after raising two children in a passionless marriage. …
Kirstie Alley, have you called HBO yet?, SheKnows.com
We’re not quite sure what the adjective “Virginia Woolf” connotes, but we’re thinking something along the lines of “lesbians” and “high tea.” Juuust kidding — sort of. Woolf was a famous British writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whom …
To The River by Olivia Laing, The Skinny
Skimming and deep-diving alternately into lives evermore bound by varying degrees to rivers, it also looks at the life of Virginia Woolf through her relationship with the river. With Woolf at the centre, Laing nurtures a theme of mental illness with …
Rabbit Hole, Cinema Blend
When we think of a movie about closed-in people, instinct often goes to a Virginia Woolf-like figure — a lonely person languorous in a walled room. John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole is about closed-in people, but he chooses to begin his film in the …
Education calendar, GoErie.com
Corrine Egan will lead discussions on selections by Plato, James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot,Jane Austen and others. The cost is $50 plus materials. Visit www.JESerie.org. – America’s most underrated president: James K. Polk, …
Creating the perfect space to fill with nothing,Irish Times
Roy Foster quotes Virginia Woolf describing Bowen’s Court as “merely a great stone box,” which happens to be a remarkably apt description of the houses that we find in English’s paintings. They are often monolithic edifices standing incongruously in …
Walking with Socrates, Canada.com
Those Toronto-based classes have grown; this summer, from July 17 to 22, Classical Pursuits will offer 11 sessions, accommodating 125 to 130 people, and covering everything from Chekhov and Virginia Woolf to “Vienna: World Capital of Classical Music. …
Performances on April 28-30 are at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in the Dorothy Hess Baker Theatre, in the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for patrons 17 and under. Call 484-664-3333 or visit the website for tickets.
Read more about Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando on Blogging Woolf:
The Elite Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Arthur Kraft’s drama “Goat,” about what might have happened if a psychologist had prevented writer Virginia Woolf from committing suicide in 1941.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sundays, fronm April 22 through May 29 at the Petit Playhouse, Heritage Square, Oxnard, Calif.
Tickets are $17 for adults and $15 for seniors and students. For reservations, call 805-483-5118.
For the first time since I started tallying weekly Woolf sightings, I have fewer than 20 on my list. This week they range from a mention in an interview with Pulitzer-prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to a mother’s stream of consciousness during “the talk” with her young daughter.
How ‘the Goon Squad’ came to be, CNN International
Other inspirations: Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth” (one of my favorite books ever), Robert Stone, Virginia Woolf and the great 19th-century storytellers, especially Dickens, George Eliot and Zola. CNN: In addition to your career as a novelist, …
Winning characters, Malaysia Star
In fact, the great works feature people who are so unusual and so memorable that they earn a place for themselves beyond the pages of a book – think the titular character in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr Ripley by …
Jilly Cooper: ‘I’m a reasonable writer but I’m much too colloquial’, The Guardian
I do hope it’s only showjumpers who behave this badly.” She was wonderful. She once rang me up to say: “Darling, did you know? Virginia Woolf has just won Wimbledon.” Of course, it was Virginia Wade. Do you find it easy to write about sex? …
On the upside, Hindustan Times
Author-critic Virginia Woolf, former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and actor Catherine Zeta Jones are among some people diagnosed with bipolar illnesses. But it’s anything but glamourous. “When there are lows,
you are like a vegetable. …
But what do they do with their legs?, The Guardian
I imagined Virginia Woolf contentedly sitting in a pond of her own. And then drowning. “Where is it?” Mulan asked, her eyes bigger than ever. “It’s in our lower abdomen, inside us, below our belly button, above our vagina.” I had managed to be specific …
Agony ancients, Financial Times
The title chapter on learning to drive, for example, ranges from a meditation on freedom, Virginia Woolf and the film Thelma and Louise, through how machines challenge what it means to be human, to the Romantic idea of the quest – then back to freedom …
THE LABORATORY, Spencer Daily Reporter (blog) … but that doesn’t mean you should limit yourself to only that space. Inspiration can strike anywhere, and you must remain open to the process. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf.
History and gender are up for grabs in Muhlenberg’s joyful Orlando, Muhlenberg Weekly Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking tale Orlando takes the stage Apr. 28 to explore what we mean when we talk about identity, gender, poetry, and love Orlando, the final play in the College’s Mainstage Theatre & Dance season, traverses three centuries of …
Writing with Cats, New Yorker (blog) (Perhaps a disclaimer is in order: I do in fact have a cat, and a vaguely literary one at that: she’s called Orlando, after the Virginia Woolf novel; her first week in my care was a little confusing, gender-wise.) The other day the folks over at …
More than black and white, The Hindu
According to Virginia Woolf, the reader “differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinion of others. …
Onstage calendar: April 22, 2011, Ventura County Star
“Goat”: The Elite Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Arthur Kraft’s drama about what might have happened if a psychologist had prevented writer Virginia Woolf from committing suicide in 1941. 8 pm Fridays and Saturday, 2 pm Sundays, …
Women’s Society presents leadership awards, scholarship, Washington University Record
The award consists of a $500 cash prize and a silver clock inscribed with a quote from English writer Virginia Woolf: “I should remind you how much depends upon you and what an influence you can exert upon the future.” The Women’s Society, with the …
Phil Rizzo: Depression a challenge in old age, Signal Answers.com lists some of our most recognizable names: Writers: Hans Christian Andersen, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, and the list …
A cultural critic attends the NHL playoffs, LA Observed
Brian Kennedy wrote “Growing Up Hockey” (Folklore 2007) and “Living the Hockey Dream” (Folklore 2009), as well as a number of academic essays on topics from Henry James to Virginia Woolf. His last post for Native Intelligence was on managing fear in …
Weave magic with the food kitchen In the words of Virginia Woolf?, BlogHer (blog)
“We can k? Not think well, love, sleep well, if not many births?.” Food is an essential element of our existence, but for some people it is much more than filling the stomach and soothe your appetite. Food for a party, a gathering of fine ingredients, …
