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How to be a late bloomer in 2024
What did you do today to make that tomorrow possible?
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The soul moved the pen, and broke it.
Flaubert's emotional style.
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I quit my job to write a book about late bloomers
Not before time...
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The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late
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I quit my job to write a book about late bloomers
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Aiming at something noble. Resolutions for human flourishing.
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How to have good taste
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Let there be more biographies of failures
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Is Mary Oliver a good poet?
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Robert Frost's accidental late start
a biographical fragment
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Ha ha! Ha ha!, Obituary of a quiet life, Internet culture, Black box, Frost, Shakespeare (3x), Zola and the modern novel, teaching poetry…
The irregular review of reviews, vol. V
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On Hope
borrowing happiness from the time to come
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Patricia Highsmith's womb of her own
If you aren’t a great artist, you’ll find out.
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Paul Graham's plain rhetoric
Deceptively simple writing
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Shakespeare's breakthrough in Henry IV
The control of lyricism, the mixture of light and dark, and the realism of lowly characters.
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Is Mary Oliver a good poet?
Uh, yeah she is. “The world offers itself to your imagination.”
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Sex, madness, and death. Elizabeth Jenkins' overlooked masterpiece.
Obscurity in the age of Martin Amis's leather jacket.
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Henry IV book club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time
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The Common Reader
The Common Reader
Essays for interesting people about talent, literature, and biography. "One of my favourite Substacks." Helen Lewis
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