Woolf has gone global again, with Woolf sightings from Iran to Ireland to Cyprus to Minneapolis. But the not-so-big story reported by at least five media outlets last week (numbers one through five below) is that actress Annette Bening will read Mrs. Dalloway and Nicole Kidman To the Lighthouse for upcoming Audible recordings. Woolf is the only writer to garner two audio reads.

1. Hollywood A-Listers reading for Audible.com series, TheCelebrityCafe.com
   The Hollywood Reporter wrote the celebrities will be recording well-known books such as Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There. Kate Winslet was the first to record a book. …
2. Stars Will Read Amazon Unit’s New Audio Book Series, New York Times (blog)
   … Watts (“Summer,” by Edith Wharton), Dustin Hoffman (“Being There,” by Jerzy Kosinski), Annette Bening (“Mrs. Dalloway,” by Virginia Woolf), Samuel L. Jackson (“A Rage in Harlem,” by Chester Himes) and Kim Basinger (“The Awakening,” by Kate Chopin). …
3. Audible to release audio performances by Firth, Hathaway and more A-list celebs, USA Today
   With the female celebrity lit lovers clearly outnumbering the male lit lovers – and Virginia Woolf the only writer to double dip! Annette Bening reading Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway; Nicole Kidman (who played Woolf in The Hours) reading Woolf’s To the …
4. Famous People Will Read Famous Books for You, New York Magazine
   Celebrities interested in helping the public become more literate include Nicole Kidman, who will record Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Colin Firth (Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair), Susan Sarandon (Carson McCullers’s The Member of the …
5. Annette Bening, Dustin Hoffman and More Will Lend Their Voices to Upcoming …, Playbill.com
   Among the titles to be recorded are Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” read by Bening; Jerzy Kosinski’s “Being There,” read by Hoffman; L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” read by Hathaway; Chester Hines’ “A Rage in Harlem,” read by Jackson; …
6. Inside the mind of Mulk Raj Anand, Daily Pioneer
   Comparing the lengths of the average sentence in the individual compositions of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf who are his contemporaries, Waley goes on to muse that the Industrial Revolution has transformed literature, …
7. Christians should embrace shared faith, Herald Sun
   ENGLISH author and feminist Virginia Woolf wondered about the lack of empathy between some people. Why are we so hard on each other, she asked, when life is so difficult for all of us and when, in the end, we value the same things? Ms Woolf came to …
8. The perfectly preserved English country house designed by Lutyens in France …, Daily Mail
   The beautiful mock-Tudor manor just off the Normandy coast was a popular meeting place for artists and thinkers from around Europe including Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso and Claude Debussy. Yet the £9million Bois des Moutiers cannot find a buyer.
9. Madness and Creativity: Is there such thing as the “Mad-Genius”?, PsychCentral.com (blog)
   Virginia Woolf was a brilliant novelist who suffered from bipolar mood swings. John Nash, Nobel Prize Winner in mathematics, was the figure of the movie A Beautiful Mind, faced a life long battle with Schizophrenia. Many other writers and artists also …
10. An England that exists just outside living memory, Sunday Times.lk
    Vita Sackville-West is famous as the author of ‘The Edwardians’, the one time lover of Virginia Woolf and the gardener responsible for the exquisite beauty of the grounds at Sissinghurst in Kent, England. Vita created the latter with her husband, …
11. Novelist Jayne Joso finds freedom of thought in the Welsh landscape, WalesOnline
    I read in Virginia Woolf’s diaries recently how she found that the activity of diary writing had greatly helped her style and “loosened the ligatures”, which puts it perfectly. It also reminds me of a documentary I once saw in which AS Byatt explained …
12. Malcolm Lazin on LGBT History Month 2011, OUTTAKE VOICES (blog)
    … McMillen – Activist, Ryan Murphy – Writer/Director, Dan Savage – Journalist, Amanda Simpson – Government Official, Wanda Sykes – Comedian, Lilli Vincenz – Gay Pioneer, Virginia Woolf – Author and Pedro Zamora – AIDS Activist & MTV Personality. …
13. Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris, California Literary Review
    by Ed Voves by Alexandra Harris On a sunny September morning during the late 1930′s, Virginia Woolf sat writing in her county home, Monk’s House, in Sussex. Looking up from her work, Woolf noticed a moth fluttering from one corner of the window to the …
14. Iranians to enjoy Woolf’s Moments of Being, Iran Book News Agency
    “A Sketch of the Past”, an autobiography of Virginia Woolf published in “Moments of Being”, is converted into Persian by Majid Eslami. IBNA: “A Sketch of the Past” is the name of an autobiographical article penned by Virginia Woolf that was …
15. Instead of a Book by Diana Athill, The Guardian
    She does not have much time for Virginia Woolf, but she describes here what Woolf might call “moments of being” and bears witness to the fact that such moments can be as powerful at 90 as at 19. Does Field, I wonder, feel the same? …
16. Oh, a Happy Life if Back in Moscow, New York Times
    Last fall, Classic Stage Company in New York presented her pitch-perfect 2003 re-creation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando.” Now she has tackled “Three Sisters,” Anton Chekhov’s 110-year-old drama about young women in the provinces with big-city …
17. TS Eliot’s Rattle of Miseries, New York Times
    Among the literary figures, the most impressive were Pound; Virginia Woolf, whose viperish tongue was more lethal than any poison of the Borgias (she found Eliot “peevish, plaintive, egotistical,” with a “sepulchral voice”); and Bertrand Russell, …
18. Lost in France: The Lutyens jewel that nobody wants, The Independent
    Over the next month, an ambitious plan will be announced to try to preserve the site – which has connections with writers, artists and musicians from Marcel Proust to Virginia Woolf, Joan Miró and Claude Debussy – as a Franco-British cultural centre. …
19. The extraordinary gentlemen’s latest, Livemint
    Then there are the constant characters, Wilhel“mina” Harker from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, and Orlando (probably from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando). Throw in pop references, such as Harry Potter, …
20. Stacy Schiff, author of ‘Cleopatra: A Life,’ on the perfect biography subject, Chicago Tribune
    Virginia Woolf once reviewed a mediocre novel with the line, “The string didn’t quite unite the pearls, but the pearls were there.” I took that as a sort of operating premise. Q: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Vera Nabokov, Ben Franklin in Paris, Cleopatra. …
21. Joan Didion: Stepping into the River Styx, Again, Publishers Weekly
    “A couple of years ago… a movie… did you happen to see it… about Virginia Woolf?” (The movie is The Hours, adapted from the book of the same name by Michael Cunningham.) “Just the part where she was in the water was stuck in my mind. …
22. NinetoFive Music News, Nine to Five
    Virginia Woolf creeps into it…Frieda Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title.” Haunting and optimistic single Shake It Out is worth a listen. For a sneak peak on her sophomore album, watch exclusive studio footage and preview music …
23. How to write the new biography, The Guardian
    Peter Parker, biographer of JR Ackerley, will discuss Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip, followed by a consideration of animals in biography and autobiography and autobiographies by animals, including Virginia Woolf’s Flush, James Lever’s Me, Cheeta, …
24. Jane Urquhart inspired by visual imagination, The Telegram
    Books Urquhart plans to reference include Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Last September,” Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” as well as poetry by Brendan Kinelly. Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” will also be referenced, since Urquhart feels it’s a particularly …
25. The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf’s Mrs …, Brooklyn Rail
    These words open Virginia Woolf’s novel, as they do Septimus and Clarissa, the stunning dramatic adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway now at the Baruch Performing Arts Center until October 8th. An ambitious project with a lyrical script by the playwright and …
26. Get the inside scoop, Kingsburg Recorder
    The senior’s interests range from playing golf to watching a supernatural TV series about a werewolf to reading Virginia Woolf. The 17-year-old’s college plans, and she says this could change, are to attend California State University, …
27. A Room With Some Views, The Link
    I had written down the same before, but then we both thought about Virginia Woolf, and then came the question “Were you inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Waves?” Then came a question from one of her students—something to the effect of whether certain parts …
28. Imagining HG Wells’ sex life, Salon
    “A Man of Parts” opens in blitzed London in the spring of 1944, when Wells, nearly 78, diagnosed with liver cancer and eclipsed by modernists like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, retreats into his own head to review his life. Lodge writes, “The mind is …
29. Ray Robertson: Regardless of form, National Post (blog)
    Additionally, I’ve always admired writers, like Virginia Woolf, who were equally comfortable working in fictional and non-fictional genres. And good writing is, after all, good writing, regardless of the form it takes. And as for who my intended reader …
30. Booker Prize judge has rare literary letters stolen from his house… by his …, Daily Mail
    By Daily Mail Reporter A handyman stole a treasure trove of manuscripts by famous figures including Sir Winston Churchill, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot, from a Man Booker Prize judge. Tyrone Somers, a university graduate, was working for Dr …
31. Man jailed for theft of manuscripts by Churchill, Joyce, Amis and Eliot, The Guardian
    Photograph: Sean Smith A university graduate who stole £36000 of manuscripts by famous figures including Sir Winston Churchill, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot has been jailed for 30 months. Tyrone Somers was working as a handyman for …
32. Festival shines a light on Virginia Woolf, Cambridge Network
    A Cambridge festival draws attention to the work of Virginia Woolf – and uses her work as a creative focus. What started as a conversation over a bottle of wine a couple of years ago has resulted in a festival for readers and writers celebrating the …
33. Sheer brilliance at Perth Fashion Festival, WA today
    Taking inspirational cues from the Modernist era, one could imagine Virginia Woolf herself adopting these looks for their free form shapes and strong colours that stir melancholy. Zhivago came out to play for the first time to launch a glamourous …
34. The Sparkler of Albion: The Many Faces of Charles Dickens, Telegraph.co.uk
    As Virginia Woolf pointed out in Orlando, “a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand”. Few people lead as many lives as Dickens, who enjoyed coining extra nicknames …
35. Art, science should have equal importance to human experience, The Independent Florida Alligator
    Einstein had some things to say about time, but so did Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. If you have ever walked the “Waste Land” and heard “What the Thunder Said,” you no doubt understand the new fractured reality of the 20th century. …
36. As a manner of fact…, gair rhydd
    As Virginia Woolf quite rightly put it: “I should remind you how much depends on you, and what an influence you can exert upon the future”. Let the future be full of gentlemen and a place where women re-discover their self respect.
37. BIOGRAPHY REVIEW: “Virginia Woolf“, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    If she intends to write fiction, Virginia Woolf proclaimed in 1929, “a woman must have money and a room of her own.” Woolf had both. And she made the most of them. One of the great modernists of the 20th century, she produced more than a dozen books, …
38. Mulkraj Anand in gripping conversations, Organiser
    He got introduced to the celebrated writers of the time, including such eminent names as TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, EM Foster and Aldous Huxley. Most of the writers of the time belonged to what came to be known as Bloomsbury Group. …
39. Read any good Montaigne essays lately?, Dayton Daily News
    … von Goethe’s “Faust,” Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse.” Of course, adults have been lamenting the lack of reading by teenagers since Virgil was in junior high. …
40. What I’m wearing: Brogues, Telegraph.co.uk
    If you like a studious Virginia Woolf look then Bob’s your uncle, but if your ankles are on the stolid side, it’s best to stick to wearing trousers with your brogues. And if you’re pitching for something vampy, the brogue’s not really a goer. …
41. Aysha Taryam: Don’t be afraid to say the F-word, Gulf Today
    Women thinkers, philosophers and activists like Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Sylvia Plath have written extensively on the subject of women’s rights believing that only a woman can truly portray the struggle of her race. Books like Woolf’s A …
42. Theatre of the mind, Cyprus Mail
    For this project, Lea assembled the Persona theatre group, a cast of friends (theatre specialists) who had appeared together in a 2003 production of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. The group has also performed co-productions with theatre companies in the UK …
43. Hermione Lee to share biographer’s secrets, Irish Times
    Hermione Lee, a veteran in the field, biographer of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, will speak on all this – and share details of the tactics needed to write something masterful – when she speaks in Dublin next month. Lee has also written lives of …
44. A little corner of England in France, BBC News
    For the first 25 years of its existence, Le Bois des Moutiers was the centre of an intimate and highly distinguished arts scene, with other visitors including writers Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf and painter Pablo Picasso. …
45. Three adoptions in the family, The Guardian
    Virginia Woolf said that we think back through our mothers if we are women – and I do. That female line also embraces Annie and Eva, and puts them at the heart of my story. How could it not? They are my people; the people I grew up with. …
46. Why I Love Hemingway (and Why I Write), Wired News
    When I was 18, Virginia Woolf * stirred in me the desire to write. Hemingway made that desire last. For that I will always love him. Hemingway’s Boat [the book under review] is a book written with the virtuosity of a novelist, hagiographic in the right …
47. Stars with multiple roles in the Oscar race, GoldDerby
    Though she lost her Best Actress bid to Halle Berry (“Monster’s Ball”), Kidman won the following year for playing author Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” Billy Bob Thornton, 2001: For a while, it seemed like his stronger film was the Coen Brothers’ …
48. Flashback Five – Nicole Kidman’s Best Movies, AMCtv.com (blog)
    Well, it’s not exactly disproved by this critically acclaimed drama, for which Kidman took home Best Actress as a dowdy Virginia Woolf. But even without the prosthetic nose, Kidman’s performance as the novelist is still transformative. …
49. This week we were, Irish Times
    Listening to a letter from TS Eliot to Virginia Woolf in the Paris Review, ahead of the publication this month of The Letters of TS Eliot . In it he describes being “boiled in a hell-broth” leaving his mother off in Liverpool to take a transatlantic …
50. Amy: She’s exhausted being editor for husband, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Some spouses can write and edit together, but with the exception of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, these two roles don’t always mix well. Your adoring accolades will mean nothing if you are not honest. Without honesty, the empty praise will bring on more …

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Virginia Woolf turns up everywhere, and this week we sighted her as far away as Iran, New Zealand and Australia. See sightings numbered five, 17 and 29 to learn more. And one of her novels jumped to its death on the Entertainment Weekly website. See number eight to find out which one bit the dust — and why.

1. Idyll Banter: ‘The Catcher on the Pot’ not for sale, BurlingtonFreePress.com
   Just trying getting a straight answer from Virginia Woolf or William Shakespeare.) I can’t imagine a toilet of mine would ever be worth anything, given that I am not in the
   slightest bit reclusive. Also, unlike Salinger, I have written a lot of work …
2. VIRGINIA WOOLF BY ALEXANDRA HARRIS (Thames & Hudson £14.95), Daily Mail
   By Val Hennessy So, who IS afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well. I’ll admit, I am. She’s not exactly easy reading, is she? There are scholars who claim she was a ‘mad genius’, others who believe she was ‘the greatest writer who ever lived’ (sob your heart …
3. Yale Review turns 100, Yale Daily News
   The list is filled with notables: Thomas Mann, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and Leon Trotsky, among many others. Although the publication — the nation’s oldest quarterly literary journal — currently employs only two half-time staff members, …
4. Theater Listings: Sept. 23 — 29, New York Times
   (Brantley) ★ ‘Septimus and Clarissa’ The heedless theater company Ripe Time explodes Virginia Woolf’s miniaturist masterpiece “Mrs. Dalloway” into a beautifully choreographed exploration of love, loss and party planning in post-World War I England. …
5. Isherwood travels to Iran with two novels, Iran Book News Agency
   Clearly inspired by Virginia Woolf and Forester, he consciously applies modernist methods such as stream of consciousness in this novel. “Mr. Norris changes Trains” is another novel published in 1935 that is believed to be based on Isherwood’s own life …
6. Times Calendar, The Daily Advertiser
   Inspired by a section of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” William and Judith” is a whimsical riff on the Shakespeare authorship controversy, a meditation on creative identity and an exploration of gender roles in the world of Shakespeare’s …
7. Communication: it’s always better when we’re together, ABC Online
   This is why I keep re-reading Virginia Woolf’s brilliant Mrs Dalloway: good fiction can help us realise how much of another human being is left out, exaggerated, diminished or just faked. It is a lesson in the precariousness of understanding, …
8. A book commits suicide every time you watch ‘Jersey Shore’: Do you read high …. Entertainment Weekly (blog)
   If you look closely, you can see what appears to be To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and an unidentified book plunging to their deaths because they refuse to exist in a world in which Jersey Shore is being watched. The photo is obviously a joke, …
9. What’s the Big Deal?: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Film.com
   There is no reason to fear Virginia Woolf! She died a long time ago, and even when she was alive she wasn’t very feisty. So why have we been asking ourselves the musical question Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for nearly five decades? …
10. Stage Dive: An Off Broadway Digest, New York Magazine (blog)
    With the ghostly great Septimus and Clarissa, playwright-performer Ellen McLaughlin and director-choreographer Rachel Dickstein propel Virginia Woolf’s ecstatically unhappy hostess (McLaughlin herself) through a patently mundane yet psychologically …
11. Theater: Triumphant “Septimus & Clarissa;” Wounded “Crane”, Huffington Post (blog)
    Two shows opened recently — Septimus & Clarissa, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway; and Crane Story, a modern spin on the classic folk tale. Both shows are made with care by committed artists and involve a strong emphasis …
12. The Perfection of English and the Making of the KJB, PBS
    Perhaps one of the writers contemporary readers would find most unlikely to be influenced by the Bible is Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Yet literary critic and New Yorker staff writer James Wood, in his essay on her novel To the Lighthouse (1927) in the …
13. Book Excerpt: The Dyslexic Advantage, Wired News
    “Even then I read so slowly and poorly that I took my master’s orals on three authors, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway without having read all of their works. I couldn’t possibly read all of their works.” Fortunately, Anne could still …
14. Cookery holidays: Don’t forget your wooden spoon…, The Independent
    It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne, American columnist (1920-1998) “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.
15. Schabas on point, Queen’s Journal
    I’m tempted to say Virginia Woolf because she’s a favourite of mine and I’m a bit obsessed with the tensions between her aesthetic theory and her feminist views. But the problem with writers is that there can be a jarring disconnect between their …
16. Bipolar Buzz at a Philippines Cafe, Wall Street Journal (blog)
    Virginia Woolf’s Tears, aimed at depression and compulsive behavior, is an organic turkey soup with chopped green apples
17. Fiction Addiction, New Zealand Herald
    … rock & roll on vinyl, the Rolling Stones, Russia, the seaside, Frank Sinatra, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, springtime, John Steinbeck, surrealism, Henry David Thoreau, Toll House cookies, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, …
18. Citywide Pittsburgh Biennial comes to campus, CMU The Tartan Online
    … asking visitors to essentially create the art themselves, by either writing a letter to a feminist scientist or by sitting down at a tea table and having a conversation with a total stranger (an idea borrowed from a Virginia Woolf essay calling for …
19. Where We Must Stand: African women in an age of war, Open Democracy
    Years before Butler, feminist anti-war activists – Virginia Woolf among them – drew links between war and the male domination of political and economic arenas. Woolf may not have been fully aware of it, but she wrote The Three Guineas (1937) at a time …
20. Shakespeare and his ambitious sister, The Daily Advertiser
    When writing the play, Daigle was inspired by a section of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.” In Woolf’s essay, she made the case for an imaginary Judith Shakespeare. Judith, though ambitious and equally as talented as her brother William, …
21. The brights of spring, The Independent
    Designer couple Thea Bregazzi and Justin Thornton’s inspiration was literary heroine Virginia Woolf. Aside from some flashes of virginal white lace, however, the execution was far more avant-garde, including hi-tech, pixelated, pastel geometrics, …
22. Radev collection: tale of three art lovers to be told in new touring exhibition, The Guardian
    He was part of the tangled Bloomsbury set although somewhat overshadowed by his better known cousin Vita Sackville-West, who had a famous affair with Virginia Woolf. “Vita was very nice to his face but my God, she belittled him behind his back,” said …
23. “Clybourne Park” (Steppenwolf Theatre): A Subtle Norris Takes THE Prize!, ChicagoNow
    Scenic Designer Todd Rosenthal creates another “Virginia Woolf-esque” homestead and then during intermission totally trashes it. Rosenthal flips the makeover concept with the *after* being the mess. The house and the show is all about change! …
24. Downton Abbey is sheer fantasy, says historian, Telegraph.co.uk
    Prof Alison Light, an academic and author of Mrs Woolf and Her Servants, which explored the relationship between Virginia Woolf and her domestic staff, said that members of the Edwardian aristocracy were “mean and vindictive”. …
25. Notes From King Bolo, Wall Street Journal
    ‘You would expire of boredom,” TS Eliot warned his friend Virginia Woolf while discussing his wish to visit her home. “Insensitive persons can endure me for 24 hours; there is one old gentleman who, kept up by Port Wine, …
26. TS Eliot’s On-Again, Off-Again Anti-Semitism, Forward
    … that as metic he felt literarily and personally complicit with Jews such as Sydney Schiff (a novelist and translator who published under the pen name Stephen Hudson) and Leonard Woolf (the political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf). …
27. The perversity of Britain’s diversity regulations is bad for men, women and …, Telegraph.co.uk
    The economic downturn begins, and lasts as long as a Virginia Woolf novel feels. If your company is to survive, you’re going to have to let me, or Jane, or Dave go. How easy do you think it would be to select either Jane or myself for redundancy, …
28. It would be a shame to lose Dahl’s writing hut, Moose Jaw Times-Herald
    I’ve been to several writers’ homes, including Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, Hampshire, where she spent the last eight years of her life, Virginia Woolf’s country retreat Monk House in Lewes, East Sussex, and Ernest Hemmingway’s home in Key West, …
29. Otherness eludes the other Ondaatje, The Australian
    … intriguing polymath Richard Burton (two books following his journeys through India, and through Africa in search of the Nile’s source); Leonard Woolf, who was a civil servant in Ceylon before he married Virginia; and Ernest Hemingway in Africa. …

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Virginia Woolf appears in online stories about art, fashion, music, literature, suicide, and more this week. Scroll down for detailed Woolf sightings.

1. Internal Dialogues : Paintings by JT Winik, blogTO (blog)
   Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel”, 1921 This recent body of work represents studies in introspection. The subjects, most often depicted as solitary figures, appear lost within themselves, whether reflexively (ie as in an automatic reaction to …
2. Author of wildly popular “Llama” series recalls 20 years of rejections, Salt Lake Tribune
   But from her I’d say I learned it was all right — like Virginia Woolf said — to sit down to a room of one’s own and write. And you can do it without getting paid for it. You can do it just for the beauty of writing. That’s one way I was able to keep …
3. Perl: When Art Makes the New Look Old and the Old Look New, New Republic
   I believe I am still under the influence of Virginia’s Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day, which I read for the first time a month or so ago. Published in 1919 and generally said to be her most traditional work of fiction, it seems for that reason to …
4. Manson leads MCO in concert, new recording of Philip Glass music, Winnipeg Free Press
   So when Glass signed on to compose the soundtrack for the 2002 movie adaptation of The Hours — starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep as melancholy women linked by VirginiaWoolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway — it seemed “both inevitable and …
5. Mandy Coon, Billy Reid, Antoni Azzuolo, Daryl K and Preen at NY Fashion Week …, Sentimentalist Magazine
   As the designers revealed, they were inspired by flowers, glass houses and Virginia Woolf, which all makes sense, given the delicate formality of much of these spring/summer pieces. This is a gravatar-friendly blog, enter your e-mail address to use …
6. A Jewish Case for Mel Gibson, Reason Online (blog)
   Charles Dickens, Edmund Burke, Virginia Woolf, and Edgar Degas, to name very few, had some bad words for the Jews on occasion. But we can put these things in perspective. You can love the art (or whatever this movie will be classified as) and believe …
7. The Years, Sub Pop Records, Dream Pop, Muse
   The standout track of the recording is without a doubt “To the Lighthouse”, borrowing its title from Virginia Woolf’s lauded novel. This track is by far the most upbeat of all, invoking a summer-time indie feel amid verses of appreciating the beauty …
8. Bartender Luke Tullos, The INDsider
   This is an homage to Virginia Woolf, who first imagined Judith in A Room of One’s Own. (In real life, Shakespeare had a daughter named Judith.) Check it out at the AUI/AURA studio space at 810Jefferson St. next to Carpe Diem Gelato & Espresso. …
9. The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Financial Times
   Looking back at 19th-century Britain, Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Which paintings, if any, could she have chosen by the same criteria? For if most Victorian novels are elaborate fairy …
10. Q&A and Video: Cathy Tempelsman, TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas
    Virginia Woolf says that Middlemarch is the first novel that was written for grownups and unfortunately some people read her in high school and are really turned off by Eliot. But then people who read her as adults are so moved by the stories. …
11. Previews: What Looks Good for November, Comic Book Resources
    Athos in America – Jason returns to The Last Musketeer and includes other Jasony stories like “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf.” Gumby’s Spring Specials Collection – I haven’t read these, but if they’re anything like the Gumby Summer Specials by …
12. The rise and rise of Brontëmania, The Guardian
    Virginia Woolf visited it in the days when it was privately owned, noting the upright gravestones in the churchyard “like an army of silent soldiers”, and when it opened to the public in 1928, thousands clamoured to get in. An average of 70000 visitors …
13. Get thee to a nunnery, Ha’aretz
    Long before Virginia Woolf, this self-taught Benedictine nun wrote that not only should women be able to study at universities as a matter of course, but that for a woman, having a library of her own, and having time at her disposal to devote to …
14. Great dynasties of the world: The Bloomsbury group, The Guardian
    In 1912, Leonard Woolf married Virginia Stephen, at Lytton Strachey’s urging; Strachey had already proposed to Virginia himself, before quickly realising his mistake. “I think there’s no doubt whatever that you ought to marry her,” he wrote to Leonard. …
15. Know the signals of suicide, Iowa City Press Citizen
    Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Cleopatra, Vincent Van Gogh and Kurt Cobain are just a few of the many who have completed suicide. Many of us know at least one person who has tried or completed. Suicide remains an extremely difficult phenomenon to …
16. This Miniature Masterpiece Is Quietly Transcendent, NPR
    A few are famous — Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, for instance — but most are not. One of the rarest gems among these is JL Carr’s tiny masterpiece, A Month in the Country. The year is 1920. Tom Birkin is a young art restorer, trying to recover from …
17. Meet the Second Season Cast of Game of Thrones!, Crushable
    You might recognize him from his work as Virginia Woolf’s (Nicole Kidman) husband Leonard Woolf in The Hours or as Thomas Jefferson in the 2008 miniseries John Adams—which, notably, was also an HBO production. Fun fact: Stephen’s son Frank played the …
18. Toronto Film Festival: Tilda Swinton charms, Los Angeles Times
    Swinton deals with it head-on in the adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book “Orlando,” in which she plays the title character who jumps through time and gender, and later in “Clayton,” where as a tough, devoted corporate lawyer, we watch her armor start …
19. Listen: Stream new Memoryhouse EP, read band’s track-by-track, Drowned In Sound
    As a kind of unifying aesthetic, The Years was created with many references to the author Virginia Woolf. The title of the EP quoting her 1937 novel by the same name, To the Lighthouse a 1927 novel, ‘The Waves’, a song on the original release, …
20. Hayek, Keynes and How to Prevent Economic Crises: Sylvia Nasar, BusinessWeek
    Keynes was a balletomane, collector and intimate of Virginia Woolf, but he took up a calling that he once compared with dentistry. Artists were responsible for civilization, but economic thinkers had invented and continually improved an “apparatus of …
21. Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Vogue.com
    VIRGINIA WOOLF and the sophisticated Bloomsbury set may have been the inspiration behind Preen’s spring/summer 20 12 offering, but never fear – the staunch Victorian influence sure didn’t hamper the fun. To a minimal electronic beat, models stepped …
22. Top 10 Books About Booze By Female Authors, Huffington Post (blog)
    Even the mother of all modern women’s writing, Virginia Woolf, talking about visiting the fictitious university of Oxbridge, despairs when she compares the robust and plentiful delights available at the feast provided by the high table at the men’s …
23. Florence and the Machine Reveals New Album Title, Tracklist, KOvideo
    “What The Water Gave Me” will apparently appear twice on the album and, while named after a Frida Kahlo painting, is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s death. About the track, the singer said: “At lot of the time when I’m writing, things will just appear. …
24. Alexa Chung and Elle Fanning hit New York Fashion Week!, instyle.co.uk
    At Preen, Justin Thornton and Thea Brgazzi played host to Hollywood actress Marisa Tomei, who headed backstage to congratulate the designers on a job well done following their stunning Virginia Woolf-inspired line-up. The fashion-forward actress …
25. New York Fashion Week SS 2012: Preen, Holy Moly!
    Laser cut lace and dark floral prints give the collection an edge, and we love the fact that Preen designers Thea Bregazzi and Justin Thornton found inspiration in Virginia Woolf and Victoriana, but have interpreted it in a genuinely new and modern way …
26. Fashion Week Diary: Chris Benz’s Chic Ladies, Zero + Maria Cornejo’s Fluidity …, FashionEtc
    The spring show (inspired by Virginia Woolf) was an evolution from fall, with look upon ladylike look walking out, and nary a cut-out or super form-fitting dress in sight. Perhaps we’re all growing up and wanting to cover up? The colors were so bright …
27. Among the grownups: Children in adult fiction, The Guardian
    After all, supporting characters can be just as rich and memorable – ranging, as they do, from the sublime sensitivity of young James Ramsey in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, to the full-blown Freudian nightmare that is Marmaduke Clinch in Martin ..
28. The Biography of Me, Cinespect
    Revisionism, particularly in the context of our leaders and villains, is hot stuff for the arts whether this is Mailer’s interpretation of Hitler’s childhood (“The Castle in the Forest”), Virginia Woolf’s cocker spaniel biography “Flush,” Scorsese and …
29. From Annie Lennox to Lady Gaga: Fashion’s gender benders, Metro
    Actress Tilda Swinton has been experimenting with androgyny since starring in the film adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in 1992. She recently told US style bible W magazine that she ‘would rather be handsome for an hour than beautiful for a week’ …
    
30. I Love Autumn (ÁA), IcelandReview
    After four months of hard work, blood, sweat and even some tears, last May I submitted to the University of Iceland my 110-page MA essay about clothing and fashion as literary motif in the writings of Virginia Woolf. What made it especially challenging …
31. DISCOVERY COM A : Investigation Discovery, Military Channel and Planet Green…, 4-traders (press release)
    Etkind is also the author of Or Not to Be, a fascinating collection of suicide notes by the famous, including Kurt Cobain, Vincent Van Gogh, Diane Arbus, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. Ed Hersh: Since joining Discovery in 2009, Hersh has served as …
    

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