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David Shields

David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including Reality Hunger and, most recently in the UK, How Literature Saved My Life (Notting Hill Editions).



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I Can’t Stop Thinking Through What Other People Are Thinking

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November 2013

DAVID SHIELDS

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November 2013

Originally, feathers evolved to retain heat; later, they were repurposed for a means of flight. No one ever accuses the descendants of ancient birds...

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June 2014

Writing What You Know

Simon Hammond

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June 2014

In the summer of 1959, a headstrong but lovesick English graduate took a trip to the hometown of his...

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April 2016

clerical error

Victoria Manifold

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April 2016

Due to a clerical error on my part, the current Prime Minister is now living in the box room...

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August 2013

The Ghosts of Place

Dylan Trigg

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August 2013

 ‘So I turned around for an instant to look at what my field of vision onto the sea had...

 

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