The Point Podcast

Selected Essays | Anne Fadiman on Virginia Woolf

May 9, 2023

54:42

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf

4min

The Moth's Life

3min

The Death of a Little Moth

6min

The Death of the Moth

4min

Virginia Woolf's Suicide

3min

The Moth's Eye

4min

The Bleak Side of the Poem

6min

The Death of a Moth

4min

10.

The Life of a Frog

2min

11.

The Death of the Moth

3min

12.

The Relationship Between the Common and the Familiar Essay

3min

13.

The Evolution of Proofreading

4min

14.

The Dilemma of Writers

4min

15.

How to Write a First Draft

4min

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.