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ABOUT A BOY

BIOMASS: 26 years old 5’10″ brown hair green eyes and writing a book.

CV STUFF: St Paul’s School + St John’s College, Cambridge + London School of Economics. Middle one by far the best. Used to work for a think tank. Occasional reviewer, but would like to do more.

LIKES: Reading and talking. Tony Hancock, Dianna Wynne Jones, the West Wing and the Wire. Out of fashion old-fashioned Tories: G. K. Chesterton, Anthony Powell, Edmund Burke. This song. Writing. Comics and slightly dubious fantasy. Being British.

DISLIKES: Exhibitions of martyrdom and self-pity. Facebook. “Social issues”. Feminism. The books of Ian McEwan.

And the bad photo:

February, 2008, late at night

Alright, alright – I reckon I look pretty cool there. It’s everyone else who thinks I look like a tool.

READING

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