On the Pain of Reading Contemporary Writing When You Are a Contemporary Writer
Will Self Navigates the Tricky Territory Between Pity, Envy, and Rumors of Posterity
July 2, 2021
By Will Self
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Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature
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