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"My dear, if you want romance fuck a journalist."

How to Read a Novel Starting on 6th September, once a month for six months I am holding a discussion salon called How to Read a Novel. Think of it as a bookclub setting where we will learn about the techniques novelists use. Each month we read a short, classic novel and talk about how it works. We will cover beginnings, morality, patterns, character, irony, and precision. All important novelistic techniques. The first novel is Persuasion by Jane Austen where we will talk about openings. Why is it that a romance spends so long talking about the Baronetage in its first pages? And where is the…

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