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Virginia Woolf Takes a Walk, Finds a Novel

Posted on June 4, 2014 by David Dobbs · 4 Comments

In 1905, a year after her father died, Virginia Woolf, then 23, took a vacation with her sister and two brothers near St. Ives, the town along the Cornwall coast where as children they had spent summers that were among the happiest times of what would become a loss-haunted family history. It was there she reconnected […]

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For Valentine’s Day: My Mom, Ashes, and A Puzzle

Posted on February 14, 2012 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Tonight I’ll be in Brooklyn talking mothers and memoirs with Cris Beam, Clive Thompson, and the editors of The Atavist, which last year published my memoir about my mum, My Mother’s Lover. For those attending, thinking of attending, or curious about the book — a big hit for The Atavist, shooting to #1 among all Kindle […]

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other 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. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For occasional reading recommendations in my occasional newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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