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John Berger and Susan Sontag’s delicious shoptalk and big hair

Posted on January 8, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What a fabulous conversation this is, between two giants we’ve lost. You see here, in this quiet, quietly intense, intensely curious conversation — in which (a ...

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Janet Malcolm’s Inescapable Truthfulness

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

At the New Yorker’s “What We’re Reading” blog, Sasha Weiss articulates some of the many reasons I so enjoy Janet Malcolm: Reading Janet ...

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Middlemarch, Through Layers of Time and Sympathy

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

A few paragraphs into her consideration of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, New York Magazine’s Kathryn Schulz lays out a refreshingly practical definiti...

Biology/Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science

Novels Change Your Brain. So What?

Posted on January 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

A recent study found that reading novels appears to alter one’s brain connectivity — a revelation that immediately spurred a lot of coverage, and I can se...

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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Pandemics P*rn – Great Reads About Nasty Bugs

Posted on January 16, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Note: This post first appeared at Slate this past December 28, where it came at the end of a fine series on Pandemics; it seeks to direct you to the best readin...

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Growing Up on Zoloft – Talking Drugs, Depression, and Identity With Katherine Sharpe

Posted on June 18, 2012 by David Dobbs / 21 Comments

The new book "Coming of Age on Zoloft" explores the running debate about overmedication for depression and what it means to come of age -- and of identity -- wh...

Medicine/Uncategorized

SMILE: A Simple Act Becomes a Too-Simple eBook

Posted on March 7, 2012 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

As I noted a few days ago, I’m now one of the editor-reviewers at Download The Universe, a site dedicated to reviewing ebooks about science. My colleagues...

Medicine/Uncategorized

When a Smile Turns Ugly: My Review of TED Books’ “SMILE”

Posted on February 28, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Is there such a thing as too much good cheer? I argue more or less that over at the new science e-book site Download The Universe, where in dismay I’ve re...

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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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