Andre Gerard
@grenpipiens.bsky.social
Happily and sanely obsessed with Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse." To paraphrase part of my "Berfrois" blurb, I now camp and ocean kayak among eagles and otters on Salt Spring Island, but my primary residence remains To the Lighthouse.
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Looks like it will be a dreary rainy week - perfect for trying this lentil and coconut milk soup.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Looks like it will be a dreary rainy week - perfect for trying this lentil and coconut milk soup.
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Though, as the title says, it's just "Half of an Epic Simile" ("Not Found in Hesiod"), this poem by A. E. Stallings is very close to perfect, and also perfect for this time of day and dreary time of year.
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Though, as the title says, it's just "Half of an Epic Simile" ("Not Found in Hesiod"), this poem by A. E. Stallings is very close to perfect, and also perfect for this time of day and dreary time of year.
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
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(158) "The Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf (read by Tom O'Bedlam) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT1q...
"The Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
(158) "The Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf (read by Tom O'Bedlam) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT1q...
Over 15 years of diving deep into To the Lighthouse and not until this morning did I connect "since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan" to my previous Macbeth insights. Elated is too slight a term to describe my feelings.
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Over 15 years of diving deep into To the Lighthouse and not until this morning did I connect "since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan" to my previous Macbeth insights. Elated is too slight a term to describe my feelings.
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Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 December 2025
For the call for papers and further details, please see the conference website: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
For the call for papers and further details, please see the conference website: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
September 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 December 2025
For the call for papers and further details, please see the conference website: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
For the call for papers and further details, please see the conference website: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
Very exciting Woolf news: The Life of Violet. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Very exciting Woolf news: The Life of Violet. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Jonty chats to English literary critic and Virginia Woolf biographer, Hermione Lee, in this must-listen episode for Woolf fans and all classic literature lovers alike!
The best part? You can tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
#virginiawoolf #biography #writingcommunity
The best part? You can tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
#virginiawoolf #biography #writingcommunity
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Jonty chats to English literary critic and Virginia Woolf biographer, Hermione Lee, in this must-listen episode for Woolf fans and all classic literature lovers alike!
The best part? You can tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
#virginiawoolf #biography #writingcommunity
The best part? You can tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
#virginiawoolf #biography #writingcommunity
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Newly discovered Virginia Woolf proofs of "Orlando," "The Waves" and "Common Reader: Second Series" are now available online, thanks to Edward Mendelson and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/07/n... #VirginiaWoolf
Newly discovered Woolf proofs now available online
Edward Mendelson of Columbia University has shared scanned images of three sets of proofs newly discovered in Columbia’s library. They include two Virginia Woolf novels, as well as an edition…
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September 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Newly discovered Virginia Woolf proofs of "Orlando," "The Waves" and "Common Reader: Second Series" are now available online, thanks to Edward Mendelson and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/07/n... #VirginiaWoolf
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As I enter the final stretch of my PhD journey, I've been been thinking about some of the things I wish I’d known before I started. Here’s eight I can remember...
August 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As I enter the final stretch of my PhD journey, I've been been thinking about some of the things I wish I’d known before I started. Here’s eight I can remember...
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pre-ordered!
“Marginalian Editions-a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison-heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard-that explores the invisible tendrils btw science & the sacred, the psychology of bias, & the fulcrum of progress.”
“Marginalian Editions-a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison-heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard-that explores the invisible tendrils btw science & the sacred, the psychology of bias, & the fulcrum of progress.”
July 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
pre-ordered!
“Marginalian Editions-a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison-heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard-that explores the invisible tendrils btw science & the sacred, the psychology of bias, & the fulcrum of progress.”
“Marginalian Editions-a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison-heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard-that explores the invisible tendrils btw science & the sacred, the psychology of bias, & the fulcrum of progress.”
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Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this Irish Times piece with my summer reading plans and recommendations.
The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks
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The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks
Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays
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July 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this Irish Times piece with my summer reading plans and recommendations.
The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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That's why I wrote last year about the critical role that reissue publishing plays in enriching our understanind of literature beyond the familiar. My goal with the Recovered Books series is not just to sell books: it's to broaden our literary history.
We Must Rescue Forgotten Geniuses If We are to Read Them – The Neglected Books Page
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May 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
That's why I wrote last year about the critical role that reissue publishing plays in enriching our understanind of literature beyond the familiar. My goal with the Recovered Books series is not just to sell books: it's to broaden our literary history.
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Are you no one until you're hated? Not according to Bruce Clark!
On CBC’s The Debaters, he hilariously proves being hated is overrated.
🎧 link.mgln.ai/hjvrtm
The louder the trolls, the clearer the truth: CBC matters.
#SaveTheCBC #TheDebaters #CBCForever #PublicBroadcasting
On CBC’s The Debaters, he hilariously proves being hated is overrated.
🎧 link.mgln.ai/hjvrtm
The louder the trolls, the clearer the truth: CBC matters.
#SaveTheCBC #TheDebaters #CBCForever #PublicBroadcasting
May 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Are you no one until you're hated? Not according to Bruce Clark!
On CBC’s The Debaters, he hilariously proves being hated is overrated.
🎧 link.mgln.ai/hjvrtm
The louder the trolls, the clearer the truth: CBC matters.
#SaveTheCBC #TheDebaters #CBCForever #PublicBroadcasting
On CBC’s The Debaters, he hilariously proves being hated is overrated.
🎧 link.mgln.ai/hjvrtm
The louder the trolls, the clearer the truth: CBC matters.
#SaveTheCBC #TheDebaters #CBCForever #PublicBroadcasting
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The Morgan Library digitized Mary Shelley's personally annotated copy of #Frankenstein and made it available online!
#TwoForOne #TCMParty
www.themorgan.org/collection/f...
#TwoForOne #TCMParty
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Mary Shelley’s Annotated Frankenstein
This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley.
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May 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The Morgan Library digitized Mary Shelley's personally annotated copy of #Frankenstein and made it available online!
#TwoForOne #TCMParty
www.themorgan.org/collection/f...
#TwoForOne #TCMParty
www.themorgan.org/collection/f...
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Lesley Conger's Adventures of an Ordinary Mind (1958) is one of the earliest examples of the bibliomemoir, the diary of a Vancouver housewife who, between chores and children, decided to devote a year to reading "all the books I should have read by now."
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neglectedbooks.com/?...
May 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Lesley Conger's Adventures of an Ordinary Mind (1958) is one of the earliest examples of the bibliomemoir, the diary of a Vancouver housewife who, between chores and children, decided to devote a year to reading "all the books I should have read by now."
neglectedbooks.com/?...
neglectedbooks.com/?...
Lovely paper. Without claiming to do so, demonstrates the value of using Woolf's "Craftsmanship" as an aid to reading Woolf's oeuvre. open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...
Flashes of “The Charge of the Light Brigade” in <i>To the Lighthouse</i>: The Ethics of Intertextuality
By Christine Darrohn, Published on 06/01/22
open.clemson.edu
April 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely paper. Without claiming to do so, demonstrates the value of using Woolf's "Craftsmanship" as an aid to reading Woolf's oeuvre. open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...
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Inspired by the Wren Library's International Women's Day pop-up exhibition, our new blog post tells the story of Virginia Woolf and her various connections to Trinity College.
Read it here: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/v...
Read it here: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/v...
Virginia Woolf and the Wren Library
‘Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger.’ With these words, Virginia Woolf swore never to return to the W…
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April 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Inspired by the Wren Library's International Women's Day pop-up exhibition, our new blog post tells the story of Virginia Woolf and her various connections to Trinity College.
Read it here: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/v...
Read it here: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/v...
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On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white
100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...
And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...
And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
Gatsby’s Secret
Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white
100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...
And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...
And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
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Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut. Any of the six novels - by Paul Lynch, Michael Crummey, Selva Almada, Gerda Blees, Daniel Mason and Percival Everett - would be a deserving winner, says
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut
Novels by Paul Lynch, Michael Crummey, Selva Almeda, Gerta Blees, Daniel Mason and Percival Everett have made the cut
www.irishtimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut. Any of the six novels - by Paul Lynch, Michael Crummey, Selva Almada, Gerda Blees, Daniel Mason and Percival Everett - would be a deserving winner, says
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Ode to the Burning Schoolhouse, from Vinyl Cafe's Stuart McLean, 1985: buff.ly/PbUEekH
'The place where laughter meets tears': Stuart McLean: buff.ly/3nkVnmN
#CBC
'The place where laughter meets tears': Stuart McLean: buff.ly/3nkVnmN
#CBC
Ode to the Burning Schoolhouse, from Vinyl Cafe's Stuart McLean, 1985
Stuart McLean declares his love for the "correct Canadian finale" for Victoria Day fireworks - the burning schoolhouse.➤ Watch more on CBC Digital Archives:h...
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March 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Ode to the Burning Schoolhouse, from Vinyl Cafe's Stuart McLean, 1985: buff.ly/PbUEekH
'The place where laughter meets tears': Stuart McLean: buff.ly/3nkVnmN
#CBC
'The place where laughter meets tears': Stuart McLean: buff.ly/3nkVnmN
#CBC