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On Writing and Failure

On Writing and Failure

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'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences'

If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in t...

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