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S8, Ep8 How to Fail: Bernardine Evaristo

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How to Write a Book That Wins the Booker

So what I find interesting is that you wrote an affirmation, but there was a sort of practical element to it where you were working towards it as well. So it wasn't just writing, I'm going to win the booker. No, no, no. It's then writing my books. But not writing my books to win theBooker because one cannot predict who wins the Booker anyway. What would girl women other have been like had you tried to write it with that express intention? Really? That's another really good question. I think it would have been about white men. Maybe yes. And very, very beautiful sentences, perfectly constructed sentences and very traditional. If it was

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