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Get on the bus, the Virginia Woolf bus

Tuesday 28 April 2009 by Paula Maggio

Since 1999, every new bus entering the fleet in Brighton, England, has been named after a famous person with a connection to the city. One of them is Virginia Woolf.

The bus named in her honor is bus #887. Her sister, Vanessa Bell, has a bus named after her too. It is #671.

Read more on the Brighton & Hove Web site.

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Virginia is imaginary party host at Dinner

Monday 27 April 2009 by Paula Maggio

Interested in having Dinner with Virginia and friends? Order the chapbook-CD combination by the same name.

The new book and CD premiered at a one-night event April 18 in San Francisco. Together, they use poetry and music to posit a formal party hosted by Virginia Woolf for 16 eccentric historical figures.

Guests include the unlikely mix of Billie Holiday, Salvador Dalí, and Thelonious Monk, all of whom act out and think out loud — and silently.

Poet Jesse Nathan is the chapbook author, and Chris Jantzen is the composer and performer of the music on the CD and the designer of the collages included in the book.

Read a review of Dinner on BeyondChron: San Francisco’s alternative online daily, and find out how to order it.

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Mozart by The Hours

Monday 27 April 2009 by Paula Maggio

Michael Cunningham says music inspires his writing — and that he plays the same pieces over and over again to influence the rythm and the emotion of his work.

So it is apt that he read from his novel The Hours while the Sinfonietta Quartet played excerpts from Mozart’s “Dissonance” quartet, the piece he has said inspired his novel based on Virginia Woolf.

Also on Saturday night’s program in Tacoma, Washington, were Philip Glass’s score for the movie version of The Hours and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.”

Read the review.

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A Woolf conversation in cartoon form

Sunday 26 April 2009 by Paula Maggio

Want to see an amusing Virginia Woolf cartoon? Visit “from the blog of Virginia Woolf” on The Spider Spoke, written by Tom Arthur Smith.

His cartoon cleverly features Woolf’s diary entries regarding a conversation with Lytton Strachey. It is posted under the category “diary drawings.”

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All a Twitter about Woolf

Friday 24 April 2009 by Paula Maggio

I have added something new to Blogging Woolf: tweets about the latest discussions regarding Virginia Woolf on the VW Listserv and other online sources I stumble upon.

You can find the latest Woolf tweets in the right sidebar under the heading “Common Reader Tweets,” two spots below the search box.

I’m not certain how long I will continue twittering about Woolf, but I’m trying it out. Sign up to follow my Woolf tweets if you are interested.

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