Joe

Read if you like: ‘L'histoire d'une de mes folies’; Charles Dickens; excessive ambition, including of book clubs; the Old Masters never being wrong; unusual deus ex machina; spending too long in the wrong place; questionable choices; the habit of art

Read if you like: books about books; knowing everything, not just work, is about The Work; Campus by Vampire Weekend, if the professor was a little less cool; other people’s office gossip; never fully ariving; failing, failing again, failing better.

Read if you like: Looking up the end of a story at the beginning; the first draft of [revisionist] history; politics in and of the office; wondering if power is and end in itself; not knowing how to be so back; the Labour Party, for your sins