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The Happiness Project (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... 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...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... 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...
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Quotes of the Day (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
“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 [...]
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Mantex ... (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
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...
