Kit de Waal‘s debut My Name Is Leon won Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2017 and was adapted for TV in 2022. In 2020 Kit co-founded the Big Book Weekend. She is a Fellow of the RLS & patron of Prisoners Abroad. Kit runs creative writing course Writing Kit. Pic: Henry J Allen @kitdewaal.com

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Ballers Abroad, Vol. 1: Cobb in Korea. Wheels down in Ulsan, chopsticks up. Tremayne Cobb Jr. takes us from airport mode to first meal mode, with zero jet lag in the appetite.

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For some reason a lot of writers are finding my “what does high concept even mean?” article from a few years ago, so I’m resharing it in case you also need it. ericsmithrocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

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I can’t believe that Monday I was like “what’s a cool book I could produce based on LoC materials” and gave myself permission to spend a few hours clicking about, and I have already discovered an amazing archive and am working on making a book out of it.

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Google just put 4 AI chips in orbit. It's part of Project Suncatcher. Google's projections suggest making space-based data centers competitive could require about 1,800 Starship launches over 10 years. I wrote about it on #Substack. pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-en...

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