The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.
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It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
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