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Simon Yates

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For my thirteenth birthday I got a typewriter. I loved its clunky mechanics and the artful complexity required to load it with interlacing sheets of foolscap and carbon paper. I wrote dreadful stories on it based almost entirely around a hero who was always too good to be true.

In my teens I read voraciously. And I’ll never forget the bittersweet pleasure of realising that there were only twenty or so pages of Diana Wynne Jones’s “The Power of Three” - the mixed emotions of feeling the width of the remaining pages dwindle to nothing. On one hand I wanted to finish the book – to devour all of its secrets, on the other I knew that once the final page had been turned reality would once more intrude and the magic of another first read would disa
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When the Book Goes Wild

It began as an elegant conceit. I was going to explain taste. Clarify it, render that slippery word into something crystalline and precise. It was, I thought, a simple matter of distilling my impeccable sensitivity into the essence of style: a non-fiction exploration of what it means to have elegance, discernment, judgement.

Of course, I realized what a ludicrous idea that was for all the reasons g

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Entering the Weave

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