Virginia Woolf

Classic Literature Isn't Dead: No Ifs, Ands, or Buts

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 06.03.2012

Read More: Creativity, Literature, Anxiety of Influence, Virginia Woolf, Modernism, Writing, T.S. Eliot, Project Gutenberg, Harold Bloom, Literary Style, Influence, Classic Books, Reading, Books News

Now, you might ask: What does the number of times the word "because" appears in a given work tell us about whether or not an author was influenced by classic literature? Nothing. The conclusions presented in the paper would be laughable -- if they weren't being taken seriously.

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The History Of Animals In Art, Literature And Music

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Winnie the Pooh, Sergei Prokofiev, T. S. Eliot, Morgan Library, Virginia Woolf, In the Company of Animals Morgan Library, Biblical Art, E. B. White, John James Audubon, David Hockney, George Orwell, Albrecht Dürer, Ted Hughes, Peter Paul Rubens, William Blake, Babar, Arts News

The Morgan Library is exhibiting a collection of works illustrating how history's greatest artists, writers and musicians were inspired by animals. ...

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Ostracism: Why It Produces Unique Voices That Can't Be Copied

Lisa Blackwell | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Writers, David Foster Wallace, The Great Gatsby, Depression, Female Writers, F. Scott Fizgerald Alcoholism, Writers and Depression, Virgina Woolf Depression, Writers With Depression, David Foster Wallace Suicide, Books News

Great writers depict their unique quest for dignity with a freshness and accuracy that reverberates with their readers, especially those with similar experiences.

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Rodin's Drawings

David Galenson | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Alberto Giacometti, Virginia Woolf, Paul Cezanne, Auguste Rodin, Rodin, Auguste Rodin Drawings, Arts News

As far back as he could remember, Auguste Rodin loved to draw. When it came time for him to prepare for a career, his parents sent him to a school of commercial art. There, he recalled, "I thought I had gone to heaven."

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Exercising A Mind-Body Connection

goodmenproject.com | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Health Post 50, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Exercise, Body, Distraction, Gym, Fitness and Exercise, Reading, Mind, Fifty News

Full disclosure: I'm 57 years old, and twenty pounds over weight - and that was fine with me, at least until I caught a glimpse of myself, ambushed by...

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A Portrait of Charles Dickens as a Young Experimental Novelist

David Galenson | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Young, Charles Dickens Bio, Charles Dickens Novel, Charles Dickens Biography, Charles Dickens Books, Charles Dickens Novels, Books News

Like many experimental artists, Dickens never arrived at a single definitive masterpiece that embodied the essence of his contribution: he was an experimental artist who loved process and motion, and who never ceased developing.

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Patti Smith's Peaceable Kingdom

Dorothy Spears | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Arthur Rimbaud, Virginia Woolf, Rimbaud Museum, Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Patti Smith: Camera Solo, Monk's House, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bloomsbury, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hermann Hesse Museum, Photography, Arts News

For the opening of her exhibit, Patti Smith: Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT last week, Patti Smith gave a concert celebrating essential connections between art, music, and literature.

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The House That Saved Me

Nancy Hiller | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Marriage, Redecorating, Virginia Woolf, Therapy, A Home of Her Own, Divorce, Books We Love, Home Decorating, Gardening, Home, Slideadbigshot, Women News

My sister and I were raised to want two things in life: a husband and a house, in that order.

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Literary Late Bloomers

David Galenson | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Coetzee, Virginia Woolf, Experimental Innovator, Conceptual Innovator, Books News

The distinguished literary critic Robert McCrum wrote in The Observer last year that "Writers who flourish at the peak of their powers for longer than a decade, or even two, are rare birds."

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7 Unusual Writer Deaths

Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Li Bai, Virginia Woolf, Books News, Weird Writer Deaths, Dead Writers, Weird Author Deaths, Tennessee Williams, Mark Twain, Books News

The two most written about themes in fiction? Love and death. Yet however strange the circumstances that writers may invent, real circumstances of dea...

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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10 Decidedly Highbrow But Still Beach-Appropriate Summer Reads

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: John Waters, Swamplandia, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Virginia Woolf, Beach Reads, Once Upon a River, Role Models, Sex on the Moon, Beach Books, Salman Rushdie, Books News

We get it. If you're a literary snob, choosing beach reading is hard. You want something that's going to keep you entertained and happy while you work...

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The 10 Best Literary Picnics

The Observer | Kate Kellaway | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Emma, Joan Lindsay, To the Lighthouse, Ian McEwan, Women in Love, Anton Chekhov, Jane Austen, Martin Amis, Picnics, DH Lawrence, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Literary Picnics, Books News

In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…...

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Authors In Bathing Suits: Who Knew They Were This Hot?

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Authors in Bathing Suits, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Anne Sexton, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

We don’t know about you, but now that it’s officially summertime, we want to spend as much time in our bathing suits as humanly possible, and so, ...

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Which Sexy Book Character Do You Want To Sleep With?

Zoe Triska | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Franny and Zooey, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings, Literary Characters to Sleep With, Gone With the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, True Blood, Sexy Literary Characters, J.D. Salinger, James Joyce, Sexy Book Characters, Video, Sleep With Book Characters, Love & Sex, Charlaine Harris, Ulysses, Slidepollajax, Books News

It's a very personal question to ask but we didn't let that stop us, and readers really seemed to want to let us know which book characters they'd mo...

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A Woman's Tale Of Survival In The Surf Of Death And Taxes

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Howard Joynt, Nathans', Bob Woodward, Virginia Woolf, Georgetown, Memoirs, Jane Austen, Carol Joynt, Walter Cronkite, Keith Hernandez, Women Writers, Women's Memoirs, Washington Elite, Charlie Rose, John Donvan, Books We Love, Media News

First-time author Carol Ross Joynt's book, Innocent Spouse, is a contribution to strengthening sisterhood through the written word. A memoir like this speaks directly to you, Reader, in a more vivid voice than a novel.

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The Decline Of The Pseudonym

salon.com | Carmela Ciuraru | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Timothy Gallwey, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Carol Oates, Nora Roberts, Nom De Plume, Michael Crighton, The Inner Game of Tennis, Pseudonyms, Alias, Books News

At its most basic level, a pseudonym is a prank. Yet the motives that lead writers to assume an alias are infinitely complex, sometimes mysterious eve...

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The Novel Is NOT Dead

bostonreview.net | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Novels, Jess Row, Book Publishing, Virginia Woolf, Epic and Novel, Publishing Industry, Contemporary Fiction, Modern Fiction, Books News

n 1941, as Panzer divisions closed in on Moscow, as Virginia Woolf slipped stones into her pockets and disappeared into the Ouse, Mikhail Mikhailovich...

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Random House Relaunches Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press

The Bookseller | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Book Publishing, Leonard Woolf, T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, Random House, Hogarth Press, Hogarth Press Relaunch, Books News

The spirit of Virginia and Leonard Woolf's literary imprint the Hogarth Press will be revived on both sides of the Atlantic after Random House announc...

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The Problem With Gender-Neutral Book Revisions (PHOTOS)

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Book Revisions, Robert Penn Warren, Herman Melville, Bible Gender Neutral, D.H. Lawrence, Gender Neutral Book Revisions, Books News

It just so happens that a little birdie (the Internet) told us that the 2011 International Translation of the Bible is now gender-neutral! According t...

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Theater: A "Room" of Her Own

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Project, Theater, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Lauren, Eileen Atkins, Anne Bogart, Entertainment News

Director Anne Bogart and actress Ellen Lauren share their love of Woolf by delving into her mind and literally embodying the thought processes of an artist.

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The Heroes Of Self-Publishing: Authors Who Made History Without A Publisher (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Bestsellers, Virginia Woolf, Stephen King, Amanda Hocking, E.B. White, Self Publishing, Beatrix Potter, Ezra Pound, Benjamin Franklin, Heroes of Self Publishing, Books News

Self-publishing hero Amanda Hocking's extreme success earning her $2 million turns out not to be the only case. The world's literature is filled with ...

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Fictional Feasts: Mouth-Watering Moments Of Literary Gastronomy

flavorwire.com | Nina MacLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ray Bradbury, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Herman Melville, Ulysses, Moby Dick, Food in Literature, c.s. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, Books News

Watch Man Vs. Food before bed and you go to sleep craving French dipped sandwiches and face-sized burgers with cheese injected into the middle of the ...

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Our Muses, Ourselves: Why Women Like Me Run Away From Home

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Book Publishing, Virginia Woolf, Susan Straight, Grace Paley, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Muses, Take One Candle Light a Room, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter, Canada, Prince Edward Island, Art, Gift From the Sea, Writing, Malcolm Gladwell, Women in the Arts, Books News

Most women are people-pleasers, willing to charge in to fill the black holes of need around us, even if that means sacrificing the time and concentration we need to be creative.

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How To Write A Killer First Line (PHOTOS)

Writer's Relief | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, Writer's Relief, Jane Austen, Slidepollajax, Pride and Prejudice, #Writerwednesday, Harry Potter, Mrs. Dalloway, Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, Writing, Books News

From Writer's Relief: Whether you're pitching a book to a literary agent, trying to lure readers to dig into their pockets and buy your book, or hopi...

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