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  <description>A writer of fiction and long essays who takes two or three commissions a quarter. Everything published is free to read.</description>
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  <title>Pages on the wall</title>
  <description><![CDATA[How the abandoned book ended.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>The shelf</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Everything I steal from.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>The desk, most mornings</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The typewriter does not work and stays anyway.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Smith-Corona, 1962</title>
  <description><![CDATA[A gift, entirely decorative.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>The reading room</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Where the second novel was mostly written.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Signed</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two hundred copies, one afternoon, one very sore hand.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[He wrote a voice document at the end so our own people could keep writing it. Two years on we still use it.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Ghostwritten essay</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two interviews and it sounded more like me than the things I write myself.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>A reader</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Every essay free, including the early ones with a note saying he has changed his mind. That note is why I trust the rest.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>What two novels actually earned</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Advances, royalties and the arithmetic nobody publishes. Real numbers.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>On writing about a place you still live in</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The two rules I have, and the time I broke both of them.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Exposure is not a form of payment</title>
  <description><![CDATA[A short piece I have sent, unedited, about thirty times.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Delete the first two paragraphs</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Almost always. Here is why they are there and why they should not be.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>The book that does not exist</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two years, ninety thousand words, abandoned. What it taught me about the two that came after.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>School visit, free</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two sessions. Schools and libraries never pay for these.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Workshop: the first two paragraphs</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two hours, twelve people, bring something you are stuck in.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Panel, literary festival</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Three of us, an hour, on writing about a place you still live in.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
  <link>https:///dates/panel-literary-festival</link>
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  <title>Third novel: first extract</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two thousand words posted here, free, before anywhere else.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Reading, Montego Bay</title>
  <description><![CDATA[First time reading on that side of the island.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Reading, Kingston Bookshop</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Six in the evening, free, about forty minutes and questions afterwards.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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