# woolf (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover woolf. Page: Feed: --- ## [Lãng du phố thị: Một chuyến phiêu lưu ở London](https://quytshortstory.substack.com/p/lang-du-pho-thi-mot-chuyen-phieu) _2026-08-15 · lan-anh nguyen · Quýt dịch tiểu luận_ Dịch essay Street Haunting: A London Adventure của Virginia Woolf. ## [There and here](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/there-and-here) _2026-08-11 · A working library_ To keep the word, we must keep our distance. ## [The Beginning Place](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/beginning-place) _2026-08-07 · A working library_ A kind of coming of age story, if coming of age was the work not of one but two, not of solitude or isolation but of connection, conjoining, coupling. ## [Week 31 Reading (2026) Virginia Woolf & Samuel Delany](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/week-31-reading-2026-virginia-woolf-samuel-delany/) _2026-08-03 · Terry · Vertigo_ Virginia Woolf. Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing. 2nd ed. Harcourt, 1985. The earliest of the five pieces in Moments of Being is “Reminiscences,” begun in 1907. Written when Woolf was just a fledgling writer, it is addressed to the unborn child of her sister Vanessa, who had just married Clive Bell that \[…\] ## [Reading matters deeply](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/reading-matters-deeply) _2026-07-31 · A working library_ You must read where you are, not in some hypothetical sanitized reading room, but in the dirt. ## [Virtue Hoarders](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/virtue-hoarders) _2026-07-31 · A working library_ Catherine Liu argues that the professional managerial class (PMC) uses meritocracy, philanthropy, and virtue signaling to promote the core premise of neoliberal economics: an isolationist individualism that simultaneously preaches self-sufficiency and blocks collective efforts towards social justice. ## [Week 30 Reading (2026) Martha Ronk & Vanessa Bell](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/week-30-reading-2026-martha-ronk-vanessa-bell/) _2026-07-27 · Terry · Vertigo_ Vertigo (Coffee House Press, 2007) is my first book of poems by Martha Ronk, and it won’t be my last. I picked it up because “some of the titles are revised forms of sentences from W.G. Sebald’s novels.” How could I resist? The speakers in Ronk’s poems are often in situations that they themselves don’t \[…\] ## [Was](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/was) _2026-07-25 · A working library_ In 1989, Jonathan boards a plane to Manhattan, Kansas, where he rents a car, explaining to the man at the Hertz desk that he’s dying. ## [The open universe](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/open-universe) _2026-07-24 · A working library_ “The capacity to face an open universe. Physically open, psychically open. No doors shut.” ## [The Language of the Night](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/language-of-the-night) _2026-07-24 · A working library_ This is one of Le Guin’s earliest collections of essays, bringing together writing about the genre of science fiction and fantasy with reflections on her own fiction. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gzFOATXZLnC3) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Week 29 Reading (2026) – Joiner & Morrison](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/week-29-reading-2026-joiner-morrison/) _2026-07-20 · Terry · Vertigo_ This turned out to be a week accidentally dedicated to jazz. Any fan of jazz will enjoy Fred L. Joiner’s wonderful book of poetry, The Mirror in Our Music. It includes two series of poems in which he responds to photographs. I also passed the halfway mark in my way through the fiction of Toni \[…\] ## [Sắc xanh của khoảng cách](https://quytshortstory.substack.com/p/sac-xanh-cua-khoang-cach) _2026-07-20 · lan-anh nguyen · Quýt dịch tiểu luận_ Dịch tiểu luận The Blue of Distance của Rebecca Solnit. Tiểu luận này được in trong tập A Field Guide to ## [Week 28 (2026) – Morrison, Coetzee and Dimópulos](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/week-28-2026-morrison-coetzee-and-dimopulos/) _2026-07-13 · Terry · Vertigo_ In the week in which June crossed over into July, I read two short books, totaling about 220 pages in all. I’m in the midst of a run of books on the subject of translation, which will probably last for four or five titles, and I’m slowly working my way through the oeuvre of Toni \[…\] ## [Lovers and Spats, Gilot, Picasso, Wright, Baldwin and Saint-Exupéry, Brasserie Lipp, Paris](https://returnofanative.com/news/lovers-and-spats-gilot-picasso-wright-baldwin-and-saint-exupery-brasserie-lipp-paris/) _2026-07-13 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ There were few people in the brasserie \[Lipp\] and when I sat down on the bench against the wall with the mirror in back and a table in front and the waiter asked if I wanted a beer I asked for a distingue, the big glass muc that hel a liter, and for a potato salad. The beer was very cold adn wonderful to drink. The pommes à l'huile were firm and marinated and the olive oild delicious. I grounded… ## [Kraken](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/kraken) _2026-07-10 · A working library_ Billy Harrow is taking people on a tour at London’s Natural History Museum when he makes a discovery: the enormous specimen of \*Architeuthis dux,\* the museum’s carefully preserved giant squid, is gone, tank and all. ## [Về thú vui thù ghét](https://quytshortstory.substack.com/p/ve-thu-vui-thu-ghet) _2026-07-10 · lan-anh nguyen · Quýt dịch tiểu luận_ Dịch tiểu luận On the Pleasure of Hating của William Hazlitt. ## [Hungrier than before](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/hungrier-than-before) _2026-07-07 · A working library_ You cannot fill your belly with illusions. ## [The Eye of the Heron](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/eye-of-the-heron) _2026-07-02 · A working library_ On the planet Victoria, the people of Shantih Town live alongside the people of the City. ## [Bàn về tư duy thời thượng](https://quytshortstory.substack.com/p/ban-ve-tu-duy-thoi-thuong) _2026-07-02 · lan-anh nguyen · Quýt dịch tiểu luận_ Dịch tiểu luận On Being Modern-Minded của Bertrand Russell. ## [Anarchist calisthenics](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/anarchist-calisthenics) _2026-06-30 · A working library_ “Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking.” ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SN5qeaFzSCIK) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Two Cheers for Anarchism](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/two-cheers-for-anarchism) _2026-06-30 · A working library_ An anarchism of doing rather than an anarchism of theory. ## [Week 26 (2026) – Zawacki, Wittkop & Habermeyer](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/week-26-2026-zawacki-wittkop-habermeyer/) _2026-06-29 · Terry · Vertigo_ For years I have been writing a paragraph about every book I read as part of my annual Reading Log, which you can find above. Many of the books I read are from smaller, independent presses or were written by writers who aren’t everyday names, and I would like to give them a bit more \[…\] ## [Ryan Habermeyer’s “Necronauts”](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/ryan-habermeyers-necronauts/) _2026-06-26 · Terry · Vertigo_ “It is with sadness that we communicate the passing of the street sweeper, a curious man who came home from the war with a scar above his ear shaped like a pretzel. There was talk he had one of those Japanese microchips in his brain . . . On the weekends he set up a \[…\] ## [The Rift](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/rift) _2026-06-25 · A working library_ Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up. ## [Umyazu](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu) _2026-06-24 · A working library_ Reading is the art of attention. ## [Program for “Virginia Woolf & Ecologies II,” The International Virginia Woolf Society’s 2023 Symposium](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/36) _2026-06-19 · Shilo McGiff et al. · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: An Introduction](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/3) _2026-06-19 · Laci Mattison et al. · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers from the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Full Issue](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/1) _2026-06-19 · Shilo McGiff et al. · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Ten times](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/ten-times) _2026-06-10 · A working library_ “After all, who could be opposed to getting more done with less work?” ## [A Granite Silence](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/granite-silence) _2026-06-09 · A working library_ In 1934, eight-year-old Helen Priestly sets out from her home in Aberdeen, Scotland, and is never seen alive again. ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AlzjhHTREEcf) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [The Literary Lion of London, Samuel Johnson](https://returnofanative.com/stories/the-literary-lion-of-london-samuel-johnson-17-gough-square/) _2026-06-08 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ Against all odds, Samuel Johnson, a poor boy from provincial England who was beset by involuntary tics and melancholia, became a literary giant of 18th century London. He dominated intellectual life as an essayist, critic, poet and lexicographer and was affectionately dubbed ‘Dictionary Johnson’ by the populace. King George III gave him the use of ... Read more » The post The Literary Lion of… ## [Genevieve Kaplan Erases Virginia Woolf into Poetry](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/genevieve-kaplan-erases-virginia-woolf-into-poetry/) _2026-05-29 · Terry · Vertigo_ “Nothing was simply one thing.” Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse. If you opened Genevieve Kaplan‘s chapbook Settings for these Scenes (Chicago: Convulsive Editions, 2013) and didn’t know how her poems were made (and you wouldn’t know that until you got to the final page), her first poem might appear to be more or less straightforward, \[…\] ## [Chống lại sự diễn giải](https://quytshortstory.substack.com/p/chong-lai-su-dien-giai) _2026-05-27 · lan-anh nguyen · Quýt dịch tiểu luận_ Dịch tiểu luận Against Interpretation của Susan Sontag. ## [Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers from the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf - Table of Contents](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/2) _2026-05-26 · Shilo McGiff et al. · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Promises and perils](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/promises-and-perils) _2026-05-26 · A working library_ “Fear that there may be no alternative to the will of the AI arise because we have been told for decades that there is no alternative to neoliberalism.” ## [Why We Fear AI](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/why-we-fear-ai) _2026-05-26 · A working library_ Our fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is \*already\* doing. ## [Reading at Random](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/32) _2026-05-26 · Mark Hussey · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Some (Early) Versions of Pastoral: Virginia Woolf and Ecologies of Form](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/26) _2026-05-26 · Shilo McGiff · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Virginia Woolf as Mother Tree](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/33) _2026-05-26 · Catherine W. Hollis · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Program from “Virginia Woolf & Ecologies,” the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/35) _2026-05-26 · Shilo McGiff et al. · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [A Few Remarks on “Sensuous Pedagogies”](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/31) _2026-05-26 · Benjamin D. Hagen · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [Breaking with the Ring: Orlando’s Queer Geometries](https://open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselectedpapers/vol32/iss1/24) _2026-05-26 · Imogen Grigorovich · Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers_ ## [House of Day, House of Night](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/house-of-day-house-of-night) _2026-05-19 · A working library_ In a region that was once Germany but is now Poland, a woman and her husband make a life in a house where a stream runs through the foundation. ## [Freedom from unreal loyalties](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/freedom-from-unreal-loyalties) _2026-05-14 · A working library_ Four great teachers. ## [Pedro the Vast](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/pedro-the-vast) _2026-05-14 · A working library_ Pedro is vast, but he is also hidden and mysterious, tucked behind locked doors and a colloquy of priests and doctors. ## [“The Wound” by Laurent Mauvignier](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/the-wound-by-laurent-mauvignier/) _2026-05-11 · Terry · Vertigo_ “very far away there are reasons, connections, networks, invisible things working on us and we don’t understand a thing about them.” A small village in rural France in the early 2000s, some forty years after the brutal Algerian War of Independence ended in 1962. Bernard unexpectedly shows up at a party for his sister Solange’s \[…\] ## [Into the gap](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap) _2026-05-07 · A working library_ It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. ## [Bàn về lòng tự trọng](https://quytshortstory.substack.com/p/ban-ve-long-tu-trong) _2026-05-06 · lan-anh nguyen · Quýt dịch tiểu luận_ Dịch tiểu luận "On Self-Respect" của Joan Didion. ## [Reconsidering Reparations](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/reconsidering-reparations) _2026-05-06 · A working library_ Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues for a \*constructive\* form of reparations: distributive justice that looks to the past to construct a transition from the global racial empire we have today to the more just world we wish to arrive at tomorrow—and beyond. ## [The Shapeless Unease](https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/shapeless-unease) _2026-05-04 · A working library_ Struck by the sudden and untimely death of her cousin, and distressed by the terrible political order, Samantha Harvey finds that she cannot sleep.