This week in Woolf sightings, a transgender activist makes a case for a rest room of her own (1), Houston novelist Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni explains her need for a writing room of her own (2), 22-year-old pop star Ke$ha references Room (3) and an art reviewer connects the Deborah Kass Effect to the Virginia Woolf Effect (8).
- ‘My womanhood is valid’: transgender activist Janet Mock calls for change, Telegraph.co.uk
Virginia Woolf famously called for a A Room of One’s Own, setting out the need to make space for women in a man’s world. More than 80 years later, another woman is making a similar argument. But this time, rather than claiming a space to write and … - Author Chitra Divakaruni’s favorite room is a space of calm during creative storms, CultureMap Houston
According to Virginia Woolf, having a room of one’s own is essential for female artists to create. Almost a century later, award-winning Houston novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni understands that essential need for a writer to have a room that is … - Why Ke$ha’s New Memoir Is 2012’s Answer to ‘The Feminine Mystique’, The Atlantic
Now, let’s be real—it’d still be a big, big stretch to cast America’s frattiest female pop star as the neon-painted face of the feminist movement on that basis. Virginia Woolf almost certainly would have objected to lyrics like “I don’t care where you … - The Art of the Critic: On James Wood, lareviewofbooks
Virginia Woolf’s essays do this, as do Randall Jarrell’s and V. S. Pritchett’s. (Pritchett: “Beckett’s novels are lawsuits that never end.”) Because these critics tend to be novelists or poets their perspective on books is firmly rooted in the creative … - Michael Cunningham shares his thoughts, The Star Online
You tend to draw on literary references in your works, for example Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Walt Whitman in Specimen Days. Does that happen organically when you’re writing? Whitman and Woolf, and Thomas Mann, who is a smaller presence in By … - Iyambo, God Father of ?Nyama Choma?, AllAfrica.com
Eenhana — British novelist Virginia Woolf is quoted as saying, “one cannot think well, love well and sleep well, if one has not dined well.” “Dinning well” is the feeling one gets while digging into scrumptious nyama choma, and spinach at Ekanda … - Lindsay Lohan ‘too serious’ for friends, Belfast Telegraph
“My friends didn’t come to my trailer a lot because I was Cleopatra and Virginia Woolfthe entire time,” she laughed during an appearance on Good Morning America today. “I hope my love for acting really shows through. I did the best that I could and I … - Deborah Kass at the Andy Warhol Museum: Seeing Through the Mirror of Her …, Huffington Post
For those who haven’t experienced the Deborah Kass effect, suffice that I compare it to the Virginia Woolf Effect–the phasing in and out of time streams and locales, masculine and feminine identities. The difference is that, the Kass Effect isn’t … - AfterEllen.com’s Best Lesbian Week Ever: Nov. 10 – Nov. 16, Huffington Post (blog)
Getting lit: NYC has a new lesbian bar, The Dalloway, and it’s named after a Virginia Woolfcharacter. Something tells me the women aren’t going there to do any reading. LOL: Ellen DeGeneres said she enjoyed Kate McKinnon’s impression of her on SNL … - Jungle law unchanged, The Age
Woolf returned to England, married Virginia Stephen, and dedicated his only novel, The Village in the Jungle (1913) to her. In Sri Lanka, a century later, the system remains as inadequate as he described it, to serve communities that are still divided … - Gift Guide 2012: Travel, Wall Street Journal
In particular, Virginia Woolf haunts this book. Her novels had water running through them; it was in the Ouse that Woolf drowned herself in 1941. “To the River” can be purchased as an e-book in the United States. It’s still in search of a print ... - Human face of suffering, Sydney Morning Herald
Virginia Woolf, whose novel Jacob’s Room was written for her dead brother Thoby, inspires Barker’s title. Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell, is briefly glimpsed, as is Lady Ottoline Morrell. The story of Toby and Elinor Brooke is fictional but it echoes the … - A room of her own: The battle for the Women’s Library, Telegraph.co.uk
If a woman is to write fiction, declared Virginia Woolf in 1929, she must have a room of her own. And, the author noted, money. The Women’s Library, based in London’s East End, has provided just such a room for more than 75 years. But money has, of … - A ‘Wicked’ test of time, Albany Times Union
The idealistic nerdess bears some chromosomal resemblance to the young Virginia Woolf, for her acerbity and intellect; and to the young Laura Nyro, for her invention and energy; and to the older Emily Dickinson, for her willingness to retire when the …
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