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Read Two: Severed heads, runaway PR, math gender, minimalism

Posted on August 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

How to Take a Picture of a Severed Head Or not. IS is working very hard to manage its media presence, and it’s working. By Sebastian Meyer and Alicia P.Q. Whitm...

Books/Culture/Readings/Writing

When Marquez Saw Hemingway & the Wine Guy Wept Over a Nobel

Posted on April 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

In wake of Marquez’s death, reposting this, which originally ran Nov 22, 2011. RIP, GMM. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Hemingway 32 year...

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A Talk on Writing About Young Brains, Mon, April 7 at University of Vermont

Posted on April 3, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Monday, April 7, 5 pm, at the University of Vermont, I’ll talk about how to shape a mess of reading and reporting into a magazine story — specifica...

Brains and Behavior/Readings/The Orchid & The Dandelion

Uncommon Reading – Eudora Welty on Virginia Woolf on Hemingway

Posted on March 14, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

One of the underrated pleasures of the internet is all the old stuff we can now read — goodies that 20 years ago you could read only by going to a major l...

Readings/Writing

How To Pick Apart Great Writing: Joan Didion on Ernest Hemingway

Posted on July 2, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Can you pick apart the magic in a great piece of writing? No — but you can learn a lot trying. Watch Joan Didion, back in 1998 in The New Yorker, do so with one...

Writing

How I Write: With Spies, Revolvers, Whiskey, and Luck

Posted on June 21, 2013 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

The good folks at Matter and Medium asked me how I got started writing and how I write. My answer, which they first ran at Medium (and an enormous photo), is re...

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George Clooney Robs A Bank With a Lie & A Smile, and Other Scenes In Media Res

Posted on February 16, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Elmore Leonard likes to start scenes right in the middle of the scene, as he does, more or less, in the scene above from Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of...

Books/Culture/Readings/Writing

The Only Time Gabriel Garcia Marquez Saw Ernest Hemingway

Posted on November 22, 2011 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Hemingway 32 years earlier in Paris: For a fraction of a second, as always seemed to be the case, I found myself...

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Hemingway, Bach, Led Zeppelin: Neuron Culture’s Musical October

Posted on November 8, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

‘Twas an aural month at the blog. Here are October 2011’s biggest hits at Neuron Culture: Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech I hav...

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Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech

Posted on October 7, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

After this year's Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Tomas Transtromer, blogger David Dobbs received an audio clip that seized his heart: a 1954 recordin...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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