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This Writing Life

Conversations with writers about writing.

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James Kidd is a freelance writer based in Oxford. His journalism has appeared in The Independent and Independent on Sunday, Literary Review, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, Esquire Weekly, Time Out, South China Morning Post, and The Jerusalem Post among others. As well as hosting This Writing Life, he co-hosts Lit Bits with Adam Smyth and runs The Keats-Shelley Podcast.

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