- Book Of A Lifetime: The Waves, By Virginia Woolf – A modern-day review in the April 16 issue of The Independent.
- MSU student writing group sponsors free writing workshop on April 24 – News about a writer’s workshop at Montana State University led by Danell Jones, author of The Virginia Woolf’s Writer’s Workshop.
- “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor – Woolf on Henry James on the April 15 show.
- “MOMA Presents Pictures by Women: A History of Photography” – An article that gives an overview of notable women photographers included in an upcoming MOMA exhibit. Julia Margaret Cameron is mentioned.
- On YouTube, an interview with Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust was a Neuroscientist in which he testifies to the centrality of Woolf’s To the Lighthouse to his love of literature. Then get into Clarissa Dalloway’s head on NPR.
- “Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know that You Know” – This article in the April 1 New York Times focuses on the growing interest in cognitive science in English studies. Author Patricia Cohen writes that “Modernist authors like Virginia Woolf are especially challenging because she asks readers to keep up with six different mental states, or what the scholars call levels of intentionality.”
- “Shall We Fight for King and Country?” – An article on the political statesmanship of some members of the Bloomsbury Group.
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Woolf sightings from around the Web
Posted in Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf, Woolf sightings, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Danell Jones, Julia Margaret Cameron, Proust was a Neuroscientist, The Virginia Woolf Writer's Workshop, Virginia Woolf and psychology on Friday 16 April 2010| Leave a Comment »
Get into Clarissa’s head on NPR
Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, tagged Jonah Lehrer, Mrs. Dalloway, NPR, Proust was a Neuroscientist on Monday 4 August 2008| 1 Comment »
The program, which focuses on Mrs. Dalloway, was broadcast Aug. 2, but you can still hear it online. Join Robert Krulwich of NPR; Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist; and actress Anne Bobby as Mrs. Dalloway for a repeat of the broadcast here.
Learn more about Lehrer’s take on Woolf’s ability to meld art with science here. As he puts it, Woolf was the “first to identify and frame the mystery” of individual identity.