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Woolf sightings:From fashion advice to writers’ fascinations

Posted in 21st century Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged on Monday 11 April 2011| Leave a Comment »

The past week saw a bit of a slowdown in the rush of Woolf sightings that coincided with the 70th anniversary of her death, as well as the death of Elizabeth Taylor of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fame. Here are 25 Woolf sightings spotted by Google in the past eight days.

  1. Make Room, Milkwood gallery – review, The Guardian
    Supported by The Leverhulme Trust In an age of  austerity, Virginia Woolf’s words still ring true under the spotlights of  Milkwood Gallery’s latest exhibition Make Room. Yes, an artist simply must have  ‘a room of one’s own’ but it’s certainly practical …
  2. When What You Wear Says It All: Book Love as Fashion Accessory, Huffington Post (blog)
    For Sunday events, I’ll opt for a shirtwaist dress and a favorite author on my chest, choosing perhaps a well-known image of Virginia Woolf from Sujette. Friday nights, I prefer my accessories to swing. A black t-shirt provides perfect background to … Read “Five fashionable views of Virginia.”
  3. No one is sacrosant, Telegraph.co.uk
    The Hours (1998) by Michael Cunningham featured Virginia Woolf writing Mrs Dalloway and committing suicide. EL Doctorow’s Ragtime (1975) contained a lavish assortment of “real characters” including Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and Sigmund Freud. …
  4. Magical elements: an interview with Uršula Kovalyk, Czech Position (blog)
    In any case, I’ve always been fascinated by writers like GGMárquez, Isabel Allende, Virginia Woolf, that had magical elements in their work. I really dislike talking about my writing style though, because I’m not a literary theorist and honestly, …
  5. MENTAL  ILLNESS IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF, Daily Mirror
    Author Virginia Woolf was manic depressive and so was England’s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. John Nash who won the Nobel Prize for Mathematics was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. So there is nothing to be ashamed of in becoming mentally … (more…)

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Woolf sightings: From play reviews to quotes

Posted in books, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , on Monday 21 March 2011| 1 Comment »

  1. A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers, New York Times
    And the child is reduced to mere baggage when Ms. Roiphe imagines drowning herself almost the way Virginia Woolf did, but weighted down by offspring rather than stones. “And then,” she adds, “I thought that I had better write something that could stand . . .
  2. Review: “ORLANDO” soars!, ChicagoNow (blog)
    Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is a wild ride through a whimsical landscape. A place where the individual can thrive without the limitations of time, and where all it takes is a good night’s sleep to change you from man to woman. . . .
  3. Fifty isn’t the new 30, author says, Winston-Salem Journal
    After months of trying to resuscitate her near-comatose career, Jackson sucked it up with the help of a Virginia Woolf quote — “Arrange whatever pieces come your way” — and made a documentary about taking her spoiled teenager to India’s slums . . .
  4. Making Her Mark: Paule Marshall, Patch.com
    She needed, paraphrasing Virginia Woolf, a room of her own. Against the wishes of her husband, she enlisted someone to help with Evan-Keith and rented a small apartment in order to devote more time to her fledgling novel. Two years later, in 1959, . . .
  5. Wry Virginia Woolf in ‘Room’ with view, Kuwait Times
    Don’t be afraid of Virginia Woolf; her work contains a lot of plainspoken “nuggets of truth.” By now we’re pretty familiar with Woolf’s oft-repeated opinion that a woman needs a room of her own in which to write. The one-woman play, “Room,” now being . . . (more…)

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Where pop culture and Woolf collide

Posted in 21st century Woolf, Woolf online, tagged , , on Tuesday 15 March 2011| 1 Comment »

The beauty of the world, which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Do pay a visit to Hearts Asunder before the month is out. It’s a 28-day blog that illustrates the Woolf quote above.

Another thing the Tumblr blog does is show how common readers are inspired by Woolf — and how they combine 21st-century pop culture and technology to share that inspiration.

These same common readers also connect Woolf to current events. For example, Hearts Asunder creator Brianna Goldberg posted a piece that links Woolf to this week’s devastating tsunami in Japan.  On a lighter note, a blogger describes Woolf’s reaction to the news of the late Pope John Paul II’s forthcoming Facebook page.

The RSS feed of the most recent Hearts Asunder posts are at the top of the sidebar at the right. And to make sure you don’t miss anything, take a look at the clever archives display of the online collaborative writing project too.

The site is definitely worth the trip. Read more about the project concept to find out why.

Hearts Asunder archives

 

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Woolf sightings: An influential muse

Posted in Virginia Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged on Monday 14 March 2011| 1 Comment »

There were 40-plus references to Virginia Woolf in the news during the past 10 days. I don’t know if that is because it is Women’s History Month or because this is the month in which she died, but the hits have been flooding in. Here’s the list:
  1. Lesbian relationship examined in writer’s literature, The Ranger
    Rando uses novels from Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos and Virginia Woolf to explore how their writings established experimental space to represent experiences with hope and faithfulness. He introduced his lecture by saying he approaches . . .
  2. Book Review: Five Bells by Gail Jones, Blogcritics.org (blog)
    … the most well-developed character, imagines the arc of Circular Quay, to the circular ending where she is falling asleep imagining the Quay and trying to remember to phone her old lover James, the book reminded me of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.
  3. Children to be seen and heard at last, The Guardian
    To reconcile this awkward fact, Virginia Woolf came up with a neat analytical formula. The Alice books, she said, are not “books for children. They are the only books in which we become children.” Arguably, not until Dahl do we find a writer – at heart . . .
  4. Between The Covers: 13/03/2011, Independent
    George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando climbed 10000 places last year having been discussed on My Life in Books. Will this, and the strong audiences for both programmes, convince the BBC that every year should be a year of books?
  5. Jude Dibia returns with ‘Blackbird’, NEXT
    My literal influences include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and a handful of African writers like Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta and Cyprian Ekwensi. My first career high point . . . (more…)

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Woolf sightings: Lady Gaga, genius, and graphic novels

Posted in Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , on Thursday 3 March 2011| Leave a Comment »

Here are about 10 days worth of Woolf sightings from around the Web:

  1. The Jezabels: Feminine Mystique, Blast
    Over the better part of an hour, the singer eloquently dishes on feminine icons from Virginia Woolf to Lady Gaga, the thematic concepts of each of the band’s releases, and how the band members manage to merge their diverse musical tastes. 
    2. Paper Arts is a new literary arts magazine that quotes Woolf on its “About” page.
  2. Trio brings lit to life, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Named in part after a collection of Virginia Woolf’s letters, Paper Darts also aims a tiny metaphorical missile at tradition. “We’re trying to take the stick out of the butt of the literary world,” said Regan Smith, one of the young women behind the . . .
  3. Beautiful Imagination… About – News & Issues
    Or Virginia Woolf, who eloquently described the plight of Shakespeare’s fictional sister (but also encouraged us to re-imagine/re-think the history of women writers)? These women (and more) have gone before–it’s upon their graves (and the body of . . .
  4. Women Write the Berkshires and the World, iBerkshires.com
    English modernist writer Virginia Woolf once said, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” For centuries, women across cultures were silenced publicly. Their place in traditionally masculine spheres was at first prohibited and almost always . . .
  5. Greenwich House Music School Presents Joan La Barbara Concert 3/17, Broadway World
    For several years, La Barbara has developed an opera on Virginia Woolf’s verbal constructs and the demons that plagued her. More recently, she has explored the fragments of dreams in Joseph Cornell’s journals and some of the dark recesses of Edgar . . .
  6. The Instant Expert: ‘Desperate Housewives’ and The Feminine Mystique, The National
    And if they now have time for bigger battles, they have her to thank. A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN Based on a lecture she presented in 1928, Virginia Woolf argued that women need money – and a room of their own – to thrive creatively and intellectually. . . .
  7. What makes a genius? Eureka, not a moment’s glory, Organiser
    The personalities he has chosen are: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Wren, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean-Francois Champollion, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Satyajit Ray. . .
  8. 17th-Century Comedy Is Movable Feast at World Financial Center, Tribeca Trib
    “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn,” Virginia Woolf wrote in “A Room of One’s Own.” “For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.” New York Classical Theatre has brought 23 plays to more than  . . . (more…)

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