unapologetically intellectual, infectiously enthusiastic and painfully sincere (but: funny). expect: considered positions, close readings, heartfelt recommendations and unstoppable blurtings-out of ideas as they come to me
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reading is a rebellion and a return
week 8 of the Couch to 5k for reading, including my personal thoughts on where I’ve got to, an interview with Simon Haisell, and the short books I would press on you
Here we are then, beginning the last week of these eight weeks of reading...
reading teaches us who we are
week 7 of the couch to 5k for reading, featuring thoughts about self-discovery, an interview with Literary Editor Sam Leith plus! the funniest books I have ever read.
I am starting to feel a bit of dread about the end of this program, you...
reading will give you more agency (yes)
we love everything about this apart from the cigarette. he’s reading the Talmud!
first of all, my goodness this has gone a bit bananas?
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I had this piece in the Guardian
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and then I did an hour-long phone-in with Call You and Your...
[resend] reading is being in good company
forgive me, I managed to balls this up yesterday and sent it out to paid subscribers only which was very much not the intention. However, maybe it was fortuitous in a way as there was a big influx of subscribers after my Guardian piece abou...
reading is being in good company
Announcement: we will do live reading together online TONIGHT, Sunday 2nd August at 10pm UK time, 5pm ET, 2pm PT for 45 minutes (but you don’t have to do all of it). Come along! It’s very peaceful and it’s really helping people who are othe...
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bestselling novelist (eg The Power), games creator (eg Zombies, Run!), broadcaster (eg Human Intelligence). genuinely interested in almost everything. sometimes people call me a ‘public intellectual’ and I quite like it.
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