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Boulangerie

Boulangerie: Virginia Woolf's writing desk

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Sep 29, 2023

The Boulangerie is a regular, unscheduled feature of Technocomplex, appearing once or twice a week. It is for half-baked, rising dough, the just-now-in-the-oven entries. After all boulangerie in French is bakery. Entries are always very short. To find out when new loaves have been set out, follow @mrdelong@mastodon.online or watch Substack Notes.

September 29, 2023

News to me. I didn’t know that Virginia Woolf’s writing desk was part of Duke Libraries’ collection of writerly artifacts. But it is, and it got a better place to show off.

Where the desk used to sit, somewhere in Duke Libraries. The current place is much more visible (in the Rubenstein Library’s Photography Gallery and Reading Room). You see that plinth it sits on? It’s there because someone sawed the legs off. The plinth brings the desk to the original height.

The story is here: “Woolf’s New Home” by Henry Hebert.