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Year of Agatha

Lessons on writing and life from the Queen of Crime
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Agatha Christie's working notebooks are a mess—aren’t you glad?
Jotting notes for ourselves is adequate. Case closed.
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Agatha Christie, Life Lesson #4. Going Pro: How Adversity and Dire Financial Need Turned Agatha from Dilettante into Steely Professional
The one in which I start out talking about myself, and not just about our dear Agatha but don't worry, she shows up midway through
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Agatha Christie, Life Lesson #3. “I embarked lightheartedly”: Be Open to Challenges
What’s the last thing you did simply because someone dared you to do it? (Not stick your tongue to a frozen pole. We’re talking about interesting…
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Agatha Christie, Lesson #2: "The importance of books, re-reading, solitude and time"
The Victorians hot-housed flowers, but they didn't necessarily hothouse their children. What we can learn from Agatha's low-key, unschooled childhood.
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Agatha Christie, Life Lesson #1: “Very few of us are what we seem.”
The joy in discovering that the author you wrote off as irrelevant may be just the woman to teach us how to bounce back, be wildly productive, deal with…
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