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Who Is IOZ? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Someone gave me Proust Was a Neuroscientist . I read it. It only works if you modulate your mental voice so that every sentence comes out as Beaver Cleaver saying, "Gee whiz!" The chapters on Proust and Woolf are pretty convincing, the others less so. Proust and Woolf were directly interested in the nature of consciousness, memory, and perception, whereas Whitman, say, really was a mere...
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Blissfully Domestic (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s your faithful entertainment blogger, Michelle Lamar, with some good scoop for you Blissfully D rock star mamas! Today I have a good book, a chick flick list, a cool movie star…and Yo Gabba Gabba. From Wild to Child: Book for Moms Who Color Outside the Lines-Rebecca Woolf is a mom who wrote a book about [...]
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cheezy cheeky (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Virginia Woolf : A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . Zadie Smith : I am grateful to both Lisa and Joshua Appignanesi for contriving between them to get me a room of my own when it was most required . Acknowledgments, White Teeth Just a thought: could Zadie Smith's redhead music teacher Poppy have inspired Mike Leigh 's Poppy teacher in Happy-Go-Lucky ?...
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Drifting: A Director's Log (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
While at The Strand seeking to reacquaint myself with Virginia Woolf, a woman walked past me with an armful of books and muttered: "Stay right there, I need to take your picture." I ran six miles in Central Park...
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Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in September. Situated in Bloomsbury, once home to London literati like E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, the school promises "intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." Physically, it's a small bookshop with a classroom in the basement, but it has the earnest feel of a book club hosted by a psychotherapist. Instruction can take the form of six-week courses on family, love,...
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squiddity. (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
It was my last afternoon in London, and I went to Highgate Cemetery, which was quite close to my hostel. Karl Marx is buried there, beneath an enormous likeness of himself, and there's an odd assortment of other prominent people: George Eliot and Douglas Adams; the father of Virginia Woolf, and the baron who oversaw the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway; the inventor of Hovis bread...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
“Waves,” a remarkable, genre-defying multimedia translation of “The Waves,” Virginia Woolf’s most challenging novel, raises the bar for literary adaptations.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... Legal Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel. Commenting on this recent appointment, Tod Woolf, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of RXi Pharmaceuticals, noted, “We are pleased to welcome Konstantinos to RXi Pharmaceuticals in this key position. He brings a wealth of both small and large company experience as well as a broad scientific and patent law background. Konstantinos...
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Matthew's RSA blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
When my blog site is upgraded (I am told ‘it is only a matter of time’) I will be able to link to some of my own favorite sites. One that I discovered only recently is ‘The Frontal Cortex. It’s a great site which focuses on one of my own main interests – the social implications of neuroscience.
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... many things I want to do besides act.” Kidman, who won an Oscar for her role as writer Virginia Woolf in 2002’s “The Hours,” has become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, often described as Australia’s “leading lady.” But in recent years her movie credits have included “Birth,” “The Interpreter,” “Fur,” “The Invasion” and “Margot at the Wedding,” all of which failed to take off at the boxoffice....
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... are many things I want to do besides act."Kidman, who won an Oscar for her role as writer Virginia Woolf in 2002's "The Hours," has become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, often described as Australia's "leading lady."But in recent years her movie credits have included "Birth," "The Interpreter," "Fur," "The Invasion" and "Margot at the Wedding," all of which failed to take off at the boxoffice."But...
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Parent Hacks (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The Momversation is about reclaiming your sexuality after you have a baby. Yes? No? When? How? Why? (And much more.) Rebecca of Girl's Gone Child asks the questions (in a way only she can) I'd bet we've all wondered about ourselves. Here's who's weighing in: Rebecca Woolf of Girl's Gone Child Heather Armstrong of Dooce Mindy Roberts of The Mommy Blog Nataly Kogan of Work It, Mom! Fun and real....
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... this: In the bad-marriage movie sweepstakes, “Revolutionary Road” is no “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” But when sheer nastiness seizes its characters, the vindictiveness and emotional damage are breathtaking. Here’s the real difference: In “Virginia Woolf,” George and Martha are locked into a symbiotic, disturbingly needy relationship that absolutely feed off their acidic battles....
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bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
The author Virginia Woolf once posited that literature must surely be the most challenging of all the arts. The writer, she observed, is tasked with painting the landscape of a life - with a beginning, a middle and some form of conclusion - using a paintbrush with no colors. The landscape of experience, Woolf said, was far more easily constructed with the palette of the painter. Imagine...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... are many things I want to do besides act.”Kidman, who won an Oscar for her role as writer Virginia Woolf in “The Hours” in 2002, has become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, often described as Australia’s “leading lady.” Click for related contentBut in recent years her movie credits have included “Birth,“ ”The Interpreter,” “Fur,“ “The Invasion” and “Margot at the Wedding,” all of which...
