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Letter to Rebecca #25-10

My North Thames Gas saga

Start the week #99

Three possible beginnings of a book review

Letter to Rebecca #25-09

Start the week #98

Experiments in style: mystery algorithm

Start the week #97

How I wrote one of my letters

Letter to Rebecca #25-08

Start the week #96

Start the week #95

Bookish words,& their surprising stories

Start the week #94

My (Non-) Sporting Life

Letter to Rebecca #25-07

Experiments in Style Works in Progress #2

Experiments in style: Works in Progress #1

About this newsletter

Letter to Rebecca #25-06

Experiments in style: TV Game Show

The trouble with Substack

Start the week #93

Letter to Rebecca #25-05

Reminder: Just a few hours left to enter a kick-ass competition to win a copy of A Town Without Time by Gay Talese

How I reduced my marking time from 4 hours a week to 15 minutes

Effective writing: revisited

Start the Week #92

Letter to Rebecca #25-04

Blast from the past: Cindie Reller meets The Prince...

Start the week #91

Experiments in style: Neologisms

Collected stories: The Dominican Republic

Collected stories: Ancient Greece

From the archives: A very boring job

Fish

Collected stories: The Soviet Union

Letter to Rebecca #25-03

Behind the Disk Jockey version

Collected stories

Literary musings

The Skinhead Macbeth

Me and Mrs Jones

Start the week #90

Experiments in style: New Journalism

Letter to Rebecca #25-02

Experiments in Style Special Edition

O America

Legacy

Experiments in style: The Disk Jockey

Start the week #89

Experiment in style: Testing times (comments now open to all)

And then there was Spikey -- now open to all

Letter to Rebecca #25-01

Start the week #88

Bravery, revisted

Why I didn't wear a tie