American Fez (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A woman must have an internet connection and a MySpace of her own if she is to write excruciatingly embarrassing online diary entries about herself. For example, William Shakespeare owned a powerful, 120GB laptop with which he constantly networked on...
teddythebear (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
On 10/18 there is the premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.
ephemera (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Now through November 22, The Grolier Club will present Virginia Woolf ephemera in an exhibit ("The Perpetual Fight") drawn from a number of private collections. The exhibit will include over 200 items, including books, images, letters and other ephemera materials,...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
The majority of Virginia Woolf’s better-known novels, including “To the Lighthouse” and “The Waves,” are famous for their interior monologues but not their dialogue. Still, the nervously productive Woolf had an interest in drama, being so theatrical herself. In 1935, her only play, “Freshwater,” a fantastic comedy about her . . .
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The sheer volume of secondary literature inspired by the life of Virginia Woolf is downright frightening. There have been books about Woolf???s madness, her marriage, her siblings, her friendships, her loves, her homes, and the London in which she lived and moved.
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
This engrossing portrait of Virginia Woolf and the women who looked after her explores how modern ideas of class and gender crucial to Woolf’s writing ran up against her lingering ties to a waning Victorian domestic order. Woolf frequently pondered the “servant question,” but her concern for those she employed . . .
The Happiness Project (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
... fact about my life in the late summer of 1926: yet biographers pretend they know people. -- Virginia Woolf, Diaries , September 4, 1927 This quotation is perhaps only glancingly related to the general topic of happiness, but it's very significant to my personal happiness. First, because September 4 is my wedding anniversary , it has special meaning; and also because when I was writing...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... poised atop an oversize bed, a garden scene, and a library set that we're sure would've delighted Virginia Woolf. The presentation was more performance art than fashion show. Models were encouraged to break glassware and the elaborate sets seemed to become a little bit more disoriented and chaotic as the two-hour presentation wore on. Ms. Lorick, a former model, is the real designer...
Quotes of the Day (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
“This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle” assembles manuscripts, letters, inscribed books, and photos — some never before been exhibited publicly — from collections across the country. Curated by Sarah Funke and William Beekman, the exhibit examines how Woolf’s life and art was influenced by her friends, and how their [...]
Mantex ... (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
These essays are completely self-contained, and can be read for the pleasure which Virginia Woolf thought was the purpose of the essay form. But they also illuminate her larger works of fiction. They are a small proportion of her total output (which runs to five volumes) but they represent some of the most important themes which pervade her work as a whole. They are also amazingly prophetic...
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
I just got an email advertising an upcoming exhibition in New York City about Virginia Woolf, This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle, and I’m really excited about it. It features “over 200 items, including books, images, letters and other manuscript materials, some of which have never been exhibited publicly.” [...]
This is London (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
If ever there was a work suited to the theatre director Katie Mitchell's distinctive style of radical reinterpretation it is Virginia Woolf's The Waves, starting its second National Theatre run.
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
“No! If I can’t do my interpretive dance, I don’t want to dance with anyone.” — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee I know typically I write about vintage acts, but I’m compelled to direct you to something more contemporary today. The artist is Antony & The Johnsons, and since Antony and I have [...]
Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
‘Come, then, let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs... [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: Virginia Woolf , The Waves , wine , parties
