Alice Robb

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Alice Robb (born 1992){{Cite web|url=https://enchantedprose.com/dont-think-dear-on-loving-and-leaving-ballet/|title=Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet|work=Enchanted Prose|first=Lorraine|last=Kleinwaks|date=23 February 2023|accessdate=1 January 2025}} is an American writer. She regularly contributes book reviews to New Statesman.{{Cite web |title=Alice Robb, Author at New Statesman |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/writers/319899}} Her first book Why We Dream is about the science of dreaming.{{cite news |last=Meyer |first=Lily |title='Why We Dream' Is A Spirited, Cogent Defense Of Dreams And Dream-Telling |work=NPR |date=November 16, 2018 |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/670804691/why-we-dream-is-a-spirited-cogent-defense-of-dreams-and-dream-telling?t=1601562551275}}{{cite news |last=Hewitt |first=Sean |title=Why We Dream review: Full of weird and fascinating insights |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=March 30, 2019 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/why-we-dream-review-full-of-weird-and-fascinating-insights-1.3831737}}{{cite news |last=Chivers |first=Tom |title=Why We Dream: The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams by Alice Robb review — decoding messages from the land of nod |work=The Times |date=March 22, 2019 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/why-we-dream-the-science-creativity-and-transformative-power-of-dreams-by-alice-robb-review-decoding-messages-from-the-land-of-nod-khkk22z2m}} Her second book is the memoir Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet, released in 2023.

Early life and education

Robb is from New York and was accepted to the School of American Ballet (SAB) in 2001, with aspirations to join the New York City Ballet (NYCB).{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/14/ballet-dont-think-alice-robb/|title=Ballet begins with a dream. Too often, it turns into a nightmare.|work=The Washington Post|first=Kimberly|last=Schaye|date=14 March 2023|accessdate=1 January 2025}} She graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Archaeology and Anthropology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aevitascreative.com/client/alice-robb|title=Alice Robb|work=Aevitas|accessdate=1 January 2025}}

Bibliography

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=Books=

  • Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey (2018)
  • Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (2023)

=Book reviews=

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2020

|{{cite journal |author=Robb, Alice |date=3–23 April 2020 |title=The attention paradox |department=The Critics. Books |journal=New Statesman |volume=149 |issue=5514 |pages=73, 75}}

|{{cite book |author=Schwartz, Casey |title=Attention : a love story |publisher=Ballantine Books}}

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