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CHATTER AND CATASTROPHE: ON NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
This trip into the centre of a perverse psyche is well worth the time
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... & HOW I LOVED YOU
A carousel of the past, a gift of reminiscence
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FULL OF SCORPIONS IS MY MIND
The day might be beautiful, but the night is ugly—a new terror, inhabited by evil spirits, phantoms, corpses, the worst of man’s imaginings.
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SPRING WRITING COMPETITION - WINNERS
Dear Readers,
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A PIECE OF PAPER FROM CITY HALL
For me, marriage is what religion is to other people: something you believe in because it makes no sense.
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MUSN'T GRUMBLE
Britain is a septic island of complaint, a rancid, rotting, pathologised husk of whinging and griping.
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THERE IS NO REAL LIFE WITH HIM
A lot of people dislike sex, with good reason; it can be an awkward, even repulsive business if you ask me.
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THIS CHURN OF HELPERS
It has become clear that taking care of yourself is an act of selflessness, or even altruism.
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WHY I WRITE
It's intangible and it's magic really.
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THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES
THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES
Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.
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