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Issue 1 of the 2PoundPaperback

A newsletter for readers and writers

May 6

An image of the top of the author’s bookshelf, featuring a print of Dante.

May 6

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Counter Arts

‘’The Great Gatsby’ turns 100

How old is our mass-cultural crisis?

May 3

A 1925 newspaper article at the time of The Great Gatsby’s original release.

May 3

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Reading Baudelaire in the End Times

What ‘Semper eadem’ has to say about love, evil, and historical despair

May 8

Reading Baudelaire in the End Times

May 8

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Books Are Our Superpower

What I Learnt Reading Hemingway on Safari

Relationships to nature in ‘Fiesta’

Aug 23, 2024

What I Learnt Reading Hemingway on Safari

Aug 23, 2024

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Books Are Our Superpower

Literature in Love

My favourite ideas from Stendahl, Fitzgerald, and Proust

Mar 12, 2024

Literature in Love

Mar 12, 2024

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Books Are Our Superpower

How My MA Taught Me to Read as a Writer

Three strategies

Feb 26, 2024

How My MA Taught Me to Read as a Writer

Feb 26, 2024

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Books Are Our Superpower

Why I Read and Loved ‘The Morning Star’

A look at Knausgaard’s technique

Feb 9, 2024

Why I Read and Loved ‘The Morning Star’

Feb 9, 2024

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Counter Arts

More than ‘Gatsby’

Where to start with F. Scott Fitzgerald

Feb 2, 2024

More than ‘Gatsby’

Feb 2, 2024

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Books Are Our Superpower

Books I Read as an MA Creative Writing Student

Márai, Saunders, Salter

Feb 1, 2024

Books I Read as an MA Creative Writing Student

Feb 1, 2024

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Counter Arts

On The Hatred of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Why you didn’t like it and it isn’t your fault

Jan 26, 2024

On The Hatred of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Jan 26, 2024

Blake Shapiro

Blake Shapiro

F. Scott Fitzgerald enthusiast. Writer from Cape Town living in Oxford. Fan of sighthounds. Read my latest work at

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