12
Jun
The Post-Book Blues
Back at the bottom of the mountain again.
4 min read
Personal Essays
07
Jun
Caroline's Day Off
In which I take the radical step of "not working all the time".
7 min read
14
Sep
what I know about getting books published
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I got to feel
6 min read
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
6 min read
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
7 min read
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
4 min read
28
Dec
when will we cry in public again?
I haven’t been on a train since early March, so naturally I’ve been daydreaming about public transport a
3 min read
28
Dec
the five podcasts I actually listen to
If you had told me back in 2007, when approximately 30 per cent of all my waking hours were spent
5 min read
28
Dec
how do you have a minor illness during a pandemic?
I didn’t write to you last Friday as I had planned. I was busy reenacting this scene:
I had
5 min read
28
Dec
because of all the words I deleted
This is how many words I wrote last week:
During the working week 24 — 28 August, I wrote 13,671
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