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A reading, a conversation and questions. Forty-five minutes to an hour.

Festivals, bookshops, libraries and literary societies. I read for about fifteen minutes and then would much rather have a conversation than continue reading at people. Happy to be interviewed, happy to interview somebody else.

Who it is for — A reading, a conversation and questions. Forty-five minutes to an hour.

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Three novels about places people stay in, and two hundred essays about looking at one thing closely. Written in longhand, mostly before eight in the morning.

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The essays are free and there are two hundred of them. If you would rather have the books, they are all in print and available from any bookshop that will order them.

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