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On Writing a Book

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Ben Sixsmith
Dec 03, 2022
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“I’m writing a book,” a man once told the English comedian Peter Cook at a party. “Oh, really?” Cook said, “Neither am I.”

I’m writing a book. I have the contract to prove it. An actual non-fiction book that should be finished, if all goes well, by next summer.

This is most exciting for me — the culmination, in fact, of a childhood dream. But I worry that…

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