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I never thought it would have a happy ending
On The Office’s very special Christmas Specials
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Of the writing on Substack there is no end
And much reading is a wearing of the self
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How I solved The Library of Babel
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Lincoln Michel and the fascinating tradition
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Dropping bare acknowledgements
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Chris Morris's Last Tape
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The one that got away
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Of the writing on Substack there is no end
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Round up YOUR DEAD
Or is that bring out? Er. [Jangles chains]
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Genocide out of sight, out of mind
Defining ‘The Zone of Interest’
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James Clarke and the triage of fiction
‘Sanderson’s Isle’, a new great British novel
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The doping scandal in literature
Reading between the lines, being scared of what I see
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Content harvest festival
An autumnal round-up
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Professionalism is.
What makes a show perfect, and why The Office was
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How to read short stories
With a bit of why and where thrown in
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Big screen energy
Wrong and right reasons to go back to the cinema
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Be a good boy
The meaning of stories about meaningless suffering
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