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World Service,1 min
'But what if you failed at writing? Where does your sense of self go then?'
The Cultural FrontlineAvailable for over a year
Having failed at professional basketball, American writer Benjamin Markovits felt an unexpected connection with Romantic poet Polidori who never enjoyed the success of his contemporaries. (Photo: Mary Shelley manuscripts. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images News)
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