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The agony of watching friends succeed

The agony of literary envy

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

I’ve just had the first sign that things are going back to normal — and that I’m going back to normal, too. I was suddenly struck by a feeling I’ve not had since the first lockdown last March; a feeling writers and journalists know all too well. Literary envy.

Whatever your profession, envy is something we all know.

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