New downtown Sioux City theater opens with Albee classic Oct 10, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- Edward Albee's classic play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will be Shot in the Dark's premiere performance at a new downtown venue ... "After seasons at the Cattle Club Collective, Firehouse #3 and the Castle on the Hill, the new Evelyn Larson Theatre, located at 413 Nebraska St., is the permanent home of Shot in the Dark Productions, which was initiated in 2006, the result of a 22,000 Iowa Community Cultural Grant under the auspices of the Iowa Arts Council."Who's Afraid of... (Sioux City Journal)
Woolf's servants get their due Oct 5, 2008
Virginia Woolf spent her last morning with her maid, dusting. This telling detail is one of many that make Alison Light's "Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury," so lively and so revealing. (Boston Globe)
Court Historian Sep 20, 2008
Virginia Woolf could hardly have contributed to the periodical Encounter, since she suicided 12 years before it began. It is equally tempting to expatiate upon Roberts s paroxysmal hissy-fits. (The American Conservative)
Archive to house director's 'gold mine' Sep 18, 2008
His collection will keep distinguished company with more than 60 other named special collections at the Pratt library, including those focusing on Northrop Frye, William Blake, Virginia Woolf and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is one of only two institutions to house Jewison's materials, the other located at the Wisconsin Historical Society's archives in the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Country for Old Men Sep 18, 2008
The British Museum is pastiche, with chapters that mimic Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and others. Jane Austen scholarship permeates Changing Places. (Slate)
Soulpepper unveils plans for its 2009 season Sep 17, 2008
Of the Fields, Lately; Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, with Kenneth Welsh; Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Ferenc Molnar's comedy The Guardsman, translated by Frank Marcus; Antigone, reworked by Evan Webber with Chris Abraham; Parfumerie, by Miklos Laszlo, adapted by Adam Pettle & Brenda Robins; and finally Civil Elegies, which closes on Dec. 24, 2009. (Globe and Mail)
Bob Dylan In Baghdad Sep 16, 2008
The mullahs would get a diet of William James' religious experiences, and the young women Virginia Woolf. In the fight against barbarism, why not awe them with ideas. (Forbes)
How much Girl Talk is too much? Sep 12, 2008
Virginia Woolf said, "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.". Female friendship, in all its lovely layers and potentially dark complexities, is inexhaustible grist for film, television and literature from "Heathers" and "Mean Girls" to "Thelma and Louise," "Sex and the City," "Gossip Girl" and "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.". (International Herald Tribune)
In Jersey City, literary lion was just their Bob Sep 12, 2008
He edited the novels of Virginia Woolf, the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the poetry collections of Carl Sandburg. He recognized the Southern Gothic style of Flannery O'Connor as well as the Disengaged American voice of Jack Kerouac. (NJ.com -- News)
BU exhibition is long on talent, short on time Sep 8, 2008
Smith's photograph from the portfolio, "The River Ouse, East Sussex, England," shows the site where Virginia Woolf committed suicide, in 1941. Its austere, even chaste, handsomeness is enhanced by Smith's penciled description of the scene on the four sides of the matte. (Boston Globe)
From Bloomsbury, a drudge report Sep 7, 2008
I don't think there could be a better illustration of the way the contradictions played out than in the life of Virginia Woolf ... She did not identify with a servant's actual lot and was furious, for instance, when Nellie ordered her, Virginia Woolf, author of "A Room of One's Own," out of her, Nellie's, room. (Boston Globe)
Hmong discover literary voice Sep 6, 2008
As far as I know, there is not yet a Hmong William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Virginia Woolf. The lack of a legacy in our writing leads some of us to feel out of place compared with writers of other cultures. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Today in History Aug 26, 2008
Thought for Today: "Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded." Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (1882-1941). Yahoo. (Yahoo News)
Madison romance writer courts publishing success Aug 25, 2008
She has read enough Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway to know she does not want to write depressing stories like theirs. She prefers the happy endings of romance novels. (AL.com)
Great attention-seeker rages on Aug 21, 2008
It was the fashion of their middle age, immortalised in the 1962 Edward Albee play-turned-zeitgeist movie Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, about a professor and his wife, George and Martha, who invite another married couple to a dinner party, then put on a performance of fighting, getting drunk and playing sadistic psychological games such as "Get the Guest" and "Hump the Hostess". It went along with the idea of the times that marriage was a stifling ordeal, which forced otherwise fabulous people... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Book Reviews: 'A Blessed Child' and 'Ancient Highway' Aug 21, 2008
Being Shakespeare's sister, as Virginia Woolf imagined, would have been no bed of roses, but what do you do when you're Prospero's daughter. Linn Ullmann, it seems safe to say, is more familiar with this problem than most. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Have keyboard, will publish Aug 15, 2008
Yes, a lot of sites offer lists of famous authors who have published themselves starting with Margaret Atwood and working their way through William Blake, Lord Byron, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound to Virginia Woolf. But that means nothing if you don't already have a reputation (Ferlinghetti, for instance, was a co-founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers in San Francisco, which became a Mecca for Beat poets and provided him with enough of a living from selling... (Globe and Mail)
So, you want to be a writer? Here's how. Aug 11, 2008
Virginia Woolf declared that a woman needs a room of her own. Well, the room won't help, if you don't shut the door. (Boston Globe)
* Pulp (lesbian) fiction Aug 10, 2008
Hall's book continued to be supported by well-known intellectuals such as Virginia Woolf and EM Forster, and was published in France and the US, where it sold steadily for decades. By 1943 it had been translated into 14 languages, but it remained banned in Britain until 1949, six years after Hall's death. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Torn between two lovers Aug 9, 2008
Nicole Kidman won an Oscar as Virginia Woolf in The Hours. So did Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Elizabeth Taylor visits hospital, to return home Aug 2, 2008
Taylor won Oscars for roles in "Butterfield 8" in 1960 and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966. She also won a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, mainly for her work as an AIDS activist, in 1993. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Rep: Elizabeth Taylor Hospitalized but 'Fine' Aug 1, 2008
She s still very sick, but she s past the crisis and breathing on her own," the friend added. A number of health issues have dogged Taylor through the years, including congestive heart failure in 2004 that, compounded with spinal fractures and the effects of scoliosis, left her nearly bedridden. She's also battled ulcers, amoebic dysentery, bursitis, acute bronchitis, two serious bouts of pneumonia, drug and alcohol addiction and a benign brain tumor that was removed in 1997. Taylor lives in Bel... (Fox News)
Hospitalized Liz Taylor is 'fine' Aug 1, 2008
Taylor won Oscars for roles in Butterfield 8 in 1960 and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. in 1966. (MSNBC -- News)
Showcasing romance, and its unraveling, on the stage Jul 29, 2008
Tate, a popular TV comedienne in Britain, is the biggest name of the ensemble and gives a comparably big, blowsy performance that marks her out as a potential Martha worth reckoning with if and when the London theater next gets around to reviving "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" But all the performances ring unerringly true, O'Dowd trying touchingly against the odds to articulate the same widening gulf from which Rowan's Graham is memorably sent reeling as he bashes the flowers he has brought... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Library made the hub of an 'impossible house' Jul 22, 2008
Kiloran German and Elizabeth Fowler, collectors of Virginia Woolf first editions, spent 14 years restoring their Port Hope Georgian ... But before addressing all that, they gave their place an identity because, Ms. German says, "We knew the lifestyle we wanted here." And because that lifestyle had much in common with author Virginia Woolf and her gang of aesthetes known as the Bloomsbury Group, the name was obvious ... The name Bloomsbury also made sense because the home would house the couple's... (Globe and Mail)
America's self-publishing 'miracle' Jul 17, 2008
The famous novelists who have self-published could supply a well-rounded literary education: Mark Twain, DH Lawrence, Anais Nin, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, et al. They are proudly listed on self-publishing guru John Kremer's "self-publishing hall of fame" (). But, like Paul Young, these novelists typically did it at the break-in stage of their careers. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Letters cast a new light on famous lesbian affair Jul 14, 2008
The letters, to novelist Margaret Howard, which are up for sale at the auction house Sotheby's on 17 July and are expected to fetch around 22,000, show the depth of Sackville-West's feeling for Virginia Woolf, with whom she had a long lesbian affair, and the amusement with which the aristocrat viewed the rest of Woolf's intellectual set of friends. Sackville-West, who was the model for Woolf's androgynous, time-travelling heroine Orlando, first began writing to Howard, her 'darling... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Library of the lost Jul 13, 2008
A 1921 sketch, purporting to be of Virginia Woolf, is actually a portrait of a floppy summer hat with the ghost of something dangling beneath it. When Omar Pound, Ezra's son, was tasked with guiding the half-blind Lewis on to the ferry from Fishguard to Cork, the old painter noticed a vague outline and growled: "What kind of hat is she wearing?". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Plymouth Independent Film Festival halts production Jul 13, 2008
Haskell Wexler, who won Academy Awards for his work on "Bound for Glory" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", is the film's director of photography. Stage actress Kaiulani Lee, who has been touring with a show based on Carson's life for several decades, plays Carson and will be at the screening, which takes place Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. A trailer is online at asenseofwon , and full festival information is at 207-861-8138 and. (Boston Globe)
More gardens Jul 13, 2008
Designed by Vita Sackville-West, the artist and companion of novelist Virginia Woolf, it features colorful blossoms in cozy, romantic nooks and crannies. Nearby, tour pretty English villages in Kent and take afternoon tea or a pint of the local brew in Elizabethan-era pubs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
William Buchan Jul 8, 2008
There was, to be fair, no shortage of interesting visitors at home: 15-year-old Jessica Mitford came in the summer of 1932, TE Lawrence chanced by a week before he died in 1935, and that same year Virginia Woolf called him "a simple". William, no scholar, was asked to leave New College, Oxford, after two terms, but managed to get work as an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, having met the director during the filming of The Thirty-Nine Steps. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Pain Beyond Words Jul 7, 2008
The absolute interiority of pain explains, at least in part, why it is such a difficult state to convey, a fact lamented by many writersespecially those, like or Virginia Woolf, who dealt with illness themselves. "Are words actually any use to describe what pain (or passion, for that matter) really feels like?" asks Daudet, who suffered from syphilis. (Slate)
Strong list contends for Helpmanns Jul 3, 2008
Sydney's Company B, resident at Belvoir St Theatre, dominates the best play category, with Toy Symphony, directed by Neil Armfield and with a leading role for Richard Roxburgh; and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. directed by Benedict Andrews. (The Australian)
For P---'s sake, what's in a name? Jul 2, 2008
Then there are the authors: Virginia Woolf, Jack London, Anatole France, Debra Adelaide, E.M. Forster and Kenneth Krakow, just to name a few. They'll all need to republish under other names. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The romance-of-madness myth Jun 28, 2008
We idolized Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and other exalted sufferers, convinced that madness and great art were two sides of the same coin. We also knew that mental institutions were full of sadists, who shocked and lobotomized their victims into submission. (Globe and Mail)
Film's On-Screen Transformations Jun 22, 2008
From 1941's The Wolfman to 1981's An American Werewolf in London to this year's and The Incredible Hulk, make up and special effects have aided on-screen transformations since the beginning of film, and even earlier: published in 1897, the play Cyrano de Bergerac proved the power of the nose, from its own remake 90 years later as Roxanne (1987) with Steve Martin, to Nicole Kidman's virtual disappearance into Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002). Billy Bob Thornton is unrecognizable in Slingblade... (Suite101.com)
The Family Guy Jun 15, 2008
"I played George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Atlanta. That's a play I have known intimately my whole life. But until you really crawl inside of it and see how it works, it's not part of you. I know I'm a better playwright as a result of acting." He has returned the favor; August provides 13 juicy roles for the members of Steppenwolf, and the company is currently rehearsing Letts' next play, Superior Donuts. It's a lighter, less grandiose work, he says. (Time.com)
Melvyn in the middle Jun 14, 2008
"Well, I do, actually. It's the truth. When people ask what's your favourite film I go into a freeze. I simply don't know. The whole system breaks down, whatever's inside goes kaput. I've just got to get out of the room." Remember Me is a romance with overtones of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf. tension, trauma, inner demons abound. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Strange fiction Jun 14, 2008
"I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of their car." The proximity of Shepperton film studios was important. "They were why I picked this place. The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
New York Theatre - Shiver Factor Jun 12, 2008
Take the most despicable leading lady and multiply her by a thousand with nuances of Edward Albee s Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Violet Venable from Suddenly Last Summer, Mary Tyrone in Eugene O Neill s Long Day s Journey into Night, and a hint of Euripides Medea that s Violet Weston (Tony nominated Deanna Dunagan) a woman who devours her young with relish and ebony wit. Talk about family fun time. (Suite101.com)
Marriage la mode Jun 7, 2008
The pathos of Philip Morrell's role is touchingly evinced in Roiphe's book by the somewhat extraordinary letter that Morrell wrote to Virginia Woolf to thank her for seeming "as if you really liked me for my own sake, and not merely as O's husband" (Woolf had invited him to visit her home for a weekend) ... What sudden fit of restraint caused Rebecca West to employ her married name, Cicily Andrews, when writing to Virginia Woolf. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
'Hope springs eternal' Jun 6, 2008
Kavenna, who is 34, talks very fast and, with her pale skin and angular features, looks like Virginia Woolf. I tell her this and, happily, she is flattered. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Upstairs, downstairs May 31, 2008
Virginia Woolf called the National Velvet author Enid Bagnold 'a scallywag who married a very rich man ... Virginia Woolf described her as "a scallywag who married a very rich man", which seems to sum up her dilemma in a nutshell - but perhaps too small a nutshell. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Democracy gone to pot May 29, 2008
Literary lore has it that Anand conceptualised and wrote Untouchable in the rarefied realm of London's so-called Bloomsbury Group, which included writers like Virginia Woolf. On his return to India, Anand showed his manuscript to Mahatma Gandhi, who read and returned it with the terse comment that the language of the narrative was that of Bloomsbury, not of an untouchable. (India Times, India)
'It's done when Margot says it's done' May 27, 2008
"But when I did, I discovered to my surprise that I liked it. I found that I was more interested in asking people their opinion about Virginia Woolf than about how they wanted their steaks cooked - there aren't that many answers to that question.". In 1986, her short-story collection "Learning By Heart" was published, and she was able to get a better job at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (Boston Globe)
Come on in, the water's lovely May 26, 2008
The group, which included EM Forster and Virginia Woolf, were agnostic freethinkers, slept outdoors and swam under the stars in a river smelling of "mint and mud". It is not necessary to join the club because there are many swims along the Cam. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf May 24, 2008
John CraceSaturday May 24, 2008. Mrs Dalloway stiffened on the kerb, waiting for Big Ben to strike. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Around Town May 14 -- Check out library events May 15, 2008
This month, it s Virginia Woolf. The season finale of the Sunday Concert Series is May 18 at 2 p.m. "Mostly Mercer" features the songs of Johnny Mercer, performed by jazz cabaret singer Bobbi Carrey and her talented piano accompanist Doug Hammer. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Tonys snub megamusicals May 14, 2008
Letts is known in Atlanta for his cult hits Killer Joe and Bug, both produced by Actor s Express, and for playing George in the Alliance production of Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. a few years ago. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Debate continues on this question: Should you marry a career woman? May 12, 2008
Some women geniuses have been surrounded by doting men --- Ayn Rand and Virginia Woolf come immediately to mind. Some male geniuses have lived a lonely life --- I can't think of any right now, but there must be some. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Book group to discuss To The Lighthouse May 11, 2008
This month s choice is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, whose writing style helped forge a new direction for 20th century novelists. Contact reference librarian Chris Woods if a copy of the book is needed. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Six views out of a thousand May 10, 2008
Lee, an Oxford literature professor and critic, best known for her doorstopping biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, has no memory of the incident ... In Body Parts, a collection of essays on life-writing just out in paperback, Lee sympathises with Virginia Woolf's quip in Orlando that "a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand" ... "My anxiety comes when a figure such as Virginia Woolf is... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Fighting talk May 3, 2008
"In the end, that is what makes The Birthday Party so unsettling: it combines the structure of a rep thriller with the guilt mechanisms of Kafka's The Trial and a deeply felt rebellion against what Pinter, in a much-quoted letter to Peter Wood, called "the shit-stained strictures of centuries of tradition". The identity of the oppressors is also crucial to the play's political meaning. I put it to Pinter, and he readily agreed, that if it were Smith and Jones, rather than Goldberg and McCann,... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Full fathom five May 3, 2008
These poems again demonstrate her gift for enabling us to see change, a gift that places her unexpectedly in the company of writers such as Virginia Woolf. And once more she is preternaturally alive to every sign in her present of the sheen of the numinous. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice May 2, 2008
But effective drugs make the question more urgent now: would Virginia Woolf, medicated, have survived to write her final masterpiece, or would she have spent her extra years happily shopping. Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Relaxed admission brings chaos to the British Library May 2, 2008
In its old, mustily glorious quarters in the British Museum, the British Library's main reading room was as exclusive as it was glamorous, a club rich with tradition whose distinguished alumni included Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw. But in 1998, the library moved to a modern red-brick building on Euston Road, and four years ago, it liberalized its admission policy. (International Herald Tribune)
Creeping use of emoticons has me feeling :-( May 2, 2008
I've just read a biography of an extremely pen-happy guy in a pen-crazy time: it was Victoria Glendinning's portrait of Leonard Woolf, the economist and novelist who will always be most famous for being Mr. Virginia Woolf ... Even when Leonard and Virginia Woolf were in middle age, they had a bucket instead of a toilet. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Young musician debuts in PBS special May 2, 2008
Along with his physics, advanced placement chemistry, music theory and chamber orchestra, Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse, James Joyce s Dubliners and Jean-Paul Sartre s No Exit line his bookshelf as part of his modern European literature class. I m used to doing homework, but it took a while to get a balance to do everything. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
What Makes For Good Writing? Apr 20, 2008
One might offer examples Shakespeare, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. These are all writers who have produced good writing. (Suite101.com)
Novelists shine in Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize Apr 17, 2008
Virginia Woolf crops up twice, first in Alison Light's Mrs Woolf and the Servants, an account of the Bloomsbury writer's volatile and intensely felt relations with her live-in staff. She also features alongside the likes of Zelda Fitzgerald and Mary Lamb in Lisa Appignanesi's Mad, Bad and Sad, a history of the treatment of women and "the mind doctors". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Don't forget the F-word Apr 12, 2008
Feminism, founded by Mary Wollstonecraft, advanced by Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, has become nameless again. Perhaps a new generation will rediscover it like the shard of an ancient cooking vessel. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Daily ritualsWriters reveal how they get their creative juices flowing Apr 11, 2008
Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds at the bottom of the garden. Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout the day to get maximum light. (BBC News -- UK)
Smart People Apr 11, 2008
Variations on his ilk have popped up a lot in the movies, everywhere from Butley and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf to Wonder Boys and The Squid and the Whale. Of course, stick him with a family and the clan is sure to be woefully dysfunctional. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Simon Michael Bessie; published top figures Apr 10, 2008
The first list included Jan de Hartog's crime novel "The Inspector," Wright Morris' "Ceremony in Lone Tree" and William Goldman's "Soldier in the Rain." Later came Edward Albee's play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962). Mr. Bessie parted company with Atheneum and, in 1975, accepted a senior vice presidency at Harper, with an agreement that it would finance his and his wife's own imprint - Cornelia and Michael Bessie Books - when he turned 65 in 1981. (Boston Globe)
Simon Michael Bessie 92, publisher of major literary figures Apr 9, 2008
The first list included Jan de Hartog's crime novel "The Inspector," Wright Morris' "Ceremony in Lone Tree" and William Goldman's "Soldier in the Rain." Later came Edward Albee's play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962). But there were also misjudgments. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
