Elaborate
Ela LeeWriting, style, books, and culture reflections from Ela Lee, author of Jaded and Minbak
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Fixing my depression, breaking my writing
CW: depression, self-harm
I turned thirty-one last week.
I have a fabled tradition of crying on my birthday. Something about excitement colliding with apathy has always made me unbearably sad. When I was a child, I’d cry the morning of...
Clippings #7: Summer Recommendations
Hello! I’ve returned from my annual sojourn to Turkey to find ol’ Blighty is hotter than the Mediterranean. People are panic buying air cons and no one is getting any sleep.
Welcome again to my roundup of things consumed over the past few...
Letters: Am I too selfish to have a child? Part 2
Six months ago, I wrote a piece about being undecided about procreating. I said that I was waiting for a burning-bush sign that apparently strikes all women in their early thirties. Something about getting wrecking-balled with clucky hormon...
Letters: How to be a good literary citizen
dispatches from HMP Thameside
I was a judge for a literary prize that last week announced its winner. Past winners and shortlistees include Gail Honeyman (of Elinor Oliphant fame), Sara Collins, Sarah Harman and so on. I was blown away by...
Clippings #6: All the books I've read in 2026 so far
It’s halfway through Q2 and it’s time to share my book stack so far. It’s also approaching summer, and while others might be getting beach ready in other ways, I’m putting together my annual list of recs for sun-lounger reads usually shared...
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Author of the novels Jaded and Minbak, Forbes 30 under 30, dog ma, South London.
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