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12
Sep

I Do Not Think It Very Nice

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.
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12
Jun

The Post-Book Blues

Back at the bottom of the mountain again.
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07
Jun

Caroline's Day Off

In which I take the radical step of "not working all the time".
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19
May

A Body Made of Glass

A critically acclaimed history of hypochondria.
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18
May

The Way to the Sea

12
May

Shedunnit

14
Sep

what I know about getting books published

This is a post from my newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox here. I got to feel
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31
Aug

this is me trying

There is a story about Oscar Wilde that I was told in my first week as an undergraduate that I
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28
Dec

rummaging through all the paper

I feel like I have been taking notes on what I read since I was about 14, and that for
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28
Dec

I feel a warm little glow of satisfaction

I read that piece in the Observer last weekend about how fear of a miserable, long, dark winter is mostly
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