Essays
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Writing in the quiet hours
There is a particular kind of quiet that only exists early in the morning, before the city remembers itself. The traffic has not started, the neighbours are still asleep, and even the…
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The quiet value of boredom
We have become very good at never being bored. A queue, a lift, a red light — each gap is filled before it can open. I noticed it first in myself: the…
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Writing for one reader
When I write for “an audience”, the sentences stiffen. When I write for one person I know, they loosen and become honest. An audience is an abstraction. It has no face, no…
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