Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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The Myth of the 'Successful Writer'

The Myth of the 'Successful Writer'

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Since when did our troubled age start to associate ‘success’ with money?

Success— it could well be one of the most widely used but rarely studied words in our daily language. That, and its supposed antonym, ‘failure’, which is simply defined as “the lack or absence of success”. For this circular reasoning to revolve on its axis and the tautology to swal…

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