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Patrick Bryson

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Patrick Bryson is a writer, runner, musician and cricket tragic who lives and works in New Delhi. His short stories and essays have appeared in Southerly, Tehelka, The Lifted Brow, The Times Of India, Motherland, Out of Print, The Shillong Times and Mascara Literary Review. He was awarded his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2009. His first novel, published in 2014, is The Sad Demise Of Manpreet Singh.

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Patrick Bryson Buy books, read them, re-read them, share them, argue over them, flirt over them, fall out over them – in short, make them part of your life. Then wri…moreBuy books, read them, re-read them, share them, argue over them, flirt over them, fall out over them – in short, make them part of your life. Then write. Get in the habit of doing both regularly, so that if you don’t do either one for a while you feel strange, like something is missing. Then do it again, and again.(less)

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Patrick Bryson I don’t feel inspired so much as obligated. It’s an urge that has to be given in to. I love doing it, but there is no denying that it is a kind of add…moreI don’t feel inspired so much as obligated. It’s an urge that has to be given in to. I love doing it, but there is no denying that it is a kind of addiction. (less)

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Clive James: In One Thousand Words

It started in a Year 9 Japanese class. The temp teacher, Mrs Brown, is to blame. Our regular – Jonesu Sensei – had chucked a sickie, and her casual replacement was of the traditional variety that saw her stand-in role as being that of baby-sitter. Herding us into the Audio Visual Room, she pushed the tape into the video player, turned and said, ‘The smart ones among you will enjoy this.’ Then she Read more of this blog post »

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