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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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How you read, Alice Munro writes, and war comes home

Posted on March 6, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Here are three of the five items on today’s edition of my semi-regular “Read 2 of these and call me in the morning” mailing. The life, death, and resurrection o...

Brains and Behavior/Published elsewhere/Writing

Yaba-daba – my “Social Life of Genomes” story won a AAAS award.

Posted on November 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

A good day (so far). The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today announced that “The Social Life of Genes” (Pacific Standard, Sept/Oct ...

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Sylvia Plath on nose-picking, and other readings

Posted on October 31, 2014 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Sylvia Plath picks her nose By Sylvia Plath, by way of Janet Malcolm. There are so many subtle variations of sensation. A delicate, pointed-nailed fifth finger ...

Biology/Culture/Read Two/War/Writing

Daily Reads: Dolphins v sharks, moms v babies, war photos, sex dolls

Posted on August 8, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

War photographer Tyler Hicks on how he gets the goods (but no pictures of Hamas). A Q&A with James Estrin at the NY Times Lens blog. This is a war fought la...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

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

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

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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...

Books/Culture/Readings/The Orchid & The Dandelion/Writing

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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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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