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Selected Essays | Anne Fadiman on Virginia Woolf

May 9, 2023
54:42
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf
01:33 • 4min
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3
The Moth's Life
05:44 • 3min
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The Death of a Little Moth
08:54 • 6min
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The Death of the Moth
14:37 • 4min
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Virginia Woolf's Suicide
18:36 • 3min
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The Moth's Eye
21:09 • 4min
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The Bleak Side of the Poem
25:25 • 6min
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The Death of a Moth
31:02 • 4min
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The Life of a Frog
35:32 • 2min
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The Death of the Moth
37:26 • 3min
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The Relationship Between the Common and the Familiar Essay
40:21 • 3min
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The Evolution of Proofreading
43:27 • 4min
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The Dilemma of Writers
47:37 • 4min
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How to Write a First Draft
51:09 • 4min
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On this episode of The Point podcast series “Selected Essays,” Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to the writer Anne Fadiman about Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth” (1942) and Anne’s essay from the April 2023 issue of Harper’s, “Frog”—a eulogy of sorts for the family frog, Bunky, which was partially inspired by Woolf’s meditation on a moth fluttering back and forth across a window pane. 

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