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Tag: Virginia Woolf

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Read two of these and call me in the morning, 06-27-2014

Posted on June 27, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Read Two of These and Call Me In The Morning* 1. Cory Doctorow reviews Thomas Piketty’s* Capital in the 21st Century* This is a crisis. The reason for capitalis...

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Virginia Woolf on Happiness Among the Plain

Posted on June 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Virginia Woolf on people that you might think that she would think plain, and does, but then again, not. This while on holiday visiting some in-laws: a banker a...

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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 coas...

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Virginia Woolf is happy, but not with D.H. Lawrence, not at all

Posted on May 28, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

In the fall of 1932, the same year she fell apart in March and fainted in August, Virginia Woolf went on a happy compositional tear in October and November, wri...

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Showing Versus Telling: The Art of the Quick Sketch

Posted on May 22, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Young writers are constantly told to show rather than tell. Here, in a sketch of Virginia Woolf’s father in Quentin Bell’s biography of Virginia Woolf, Bell sho...

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...

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Virginia Woolf Was a Plant Sensitive and Tough

Posted on August 22, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

A glorious find for any Virginia Woolf fan. For a Virginia Woolf fan writing a book about a scientifico-botanical metaphor about the nature of sensitivity and f...

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The Agony of Editing Virginia Woolf’s Early Journals. Plus Welty on Woolf on Hemingway.

Posted on August 21, 2013 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

I’m having a rich time bouncing about Virginia Woolf: A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909, edited by Mitchell Leaska. This one-volume c...

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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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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