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21st July 2007 with 0 Comments

The Hari Kunzru interview in The Guardian:
What advice would you give to new writers?
Have the strength to (metaphorically) kill your babies: just because you spent a long time on something, that doesn’t make it any good.
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The Independent has interviews with American troops in Iraq:
“I just remember thinking, ‘I just brought terror to someone under the [...]

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