Down and Out.

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      The author offers reflections on being a writer, recounting his recent participation in an author event featuring novelist Tom McCarthy and discussing the economic conditions of writers in Great Britain compared to the U.S. and France. Topics include a letter written by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé which refers to death and the author's decision to remain in Great Britain to be near his children, despite the potential to earn more money as a writer abroad.