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The Baileys Prize Longlist

Dear Thief longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize.

The Baileys Prize 2015 longlist

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The Age of Monologues

A short essay I wrote on Pinter, monologues and power, published in The New Yorker, March 6th 2015

In 1973, the BBC first broadcast a Harold Pinter play called “Monologue,” in which a man speaks for twenty minutes to an empty chair. It is a superficially casual address to an absent friend with whom, we gather, he shared a lover. Or, more likely, to whom he lost a lover. Beneath the surface gloss, the mood is spiked and bitter, and as the monologue unfolds the man looks more and more like someone flailing at sea.

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