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Writing
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Virginia Woolf and the Reclaiming of Attention

Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique demonstrates how attention shapes consciousness and remains relevant to contemporary struggles against digital distraction.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Myth of the Perfect Writer's Room

Creative work often arises in ordinary, cluttered, shared, or constrained spaces rather than in idealized secluded retreats.
Science
fromMedium
4 months ago

Hoping for the long-term

Human perception of time is fluid, shaped by memory, emotion, context, and culture, producing subjective experiences of time speeding or slowing.
fromVogue
4 months ago

Can You Be Serious and Seriously Glamorous?

This past winter I survived the misery-months by reading all five volumes of Virginia Woolf's diaries. Many things happen in those diaries but the event that's seared into my mind involves a new hat. It's 1926 and the diary entry begins this way: "This is the last day of June finds me in black despair because Clive laughed at my new hat, Vita pitied me, & I sank to the depths of gloom." Oh, Virginia, girl-I feel you! The shame of wearing the too-big thing
Books
fromAeon
6 months ago

Like Virginia Woolf, I now treasure a routine of my own | Aeon Essays

I longed for what Virginia Woolf...called 'moments of being' - those exceptional experiences that stand out in memory.
Philosophy
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Music
fromThe New Yorker
7 months ago

There Is More to French Opera Than "Carmen" and "Faust"

Rediscovering obscure authors and music echoes a fascination with bringing forgotten works back to life.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Caleb Azumah Nelson: Virginia Woolf's London is the London I know'

In those quiet moments, I am reminded of the bustle of the city, or a lover's hand in mine, or the words that I couldn't quite say.
Writing
Philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf's vicious diary entry | Letters

Confusion exists between Virginia Woolf's diary entry on disability and her actual beliefs, shaped by her traumatic experiences.
fromThe Atlantic
8 months ago

Lunch With Virginia Woolf

Woolf argued that financial independence was crucial for women to produce art, more so than the right to vote, emphasizing the need for personal space and resources.
Women
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 months ago

What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Woolf's characters invoke a deep emotional resonance, reflecting on the evolution of writers throughout their careers.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 months ago

Where to start with: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is a pioneering modernist author known for exploring the conflict between personal desires and societal expectations, especially in her novel Mrs Dalloway.
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