Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job
Series of talks in which writers talk about the temporary jobs they took before taking up writing full time. Is the summer job an enemy of promise or the best experience for a would-be writer?
Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job - AL Kennedy
In a series where writers discuss the temporary jobs they took before writing full time, AL Kennedy recalls the summer she spent working with her grandmother, a furniture polisher.
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Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job - Claire Messud
In a series where writers discuss temporary jobs they took before writing full time, Claire Messud recalls work including pushing the elderly in wheelchairs and slaving in offices.
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Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job - Joe Queenan
Joe Queenan on working for a summer in a bubble gum factory. The first of five talks by writers on the temporary jobs they took before writing full time. Tedium or raw material?
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Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job - Julia Blackburn
Award-winning writer Julia Blackburn recalls the summer she spent writing dictionary definitions for 'H' and 'L'. Now she sees an autobiographical thread in them.
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Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job - Tim Pears
Novelist Tim Pears remembers his early working life before he became a writer, working as a chimney sweep and caravan park attendent.
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