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THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS

13 March 23

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Hanif Kureishi
Mar 13, 2023
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Dear Readers, my dispatches will always be free and open to everyone. I am unable to use my hands and I’m writing, via dictation, with the help of my family. If you could become a paid subscriber and support me, it’d mean so much.

I was lucky enough in my mid-teens to discover writing and literature, pornography and drugs, at around the same time.

My working day would begin in earnest at 4:30 when I arrived home from school, sat at the typewriter my father had given me, put a on record or turned on the radio, and resumed work on the novel I was writing about someone like me slowly drowning in misery at school.

I knew at least that writing had to be my ticket into the funkier world that existed a hour away, ‘up London’.

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