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  • Arifa Akbar has written articles published in The Independent (Arts Reporter, Art Correspondent, Arts Correspondent, Deputy Literary Editor).
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Arifa Akbar: Hooray for miserable writers

The Independent, Wednesday 17 March
Just as we are told that "bad news sells", so publishers began chanting a similar mantra in the 1990s when misery memoirs – first-person accounts of woe, ranging from sexual abuse to physical privation (or both, ideally, with a side order of anguish thrown in) – became highly marketable fare.
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Arifa Akbar has written...

  • More about 'london' than anything else
  • A lot about 'regexp' in the last month

Arifa Akbar by numbers...

  • 679 articles (since February 2006)
  • Average article: 16 column inches (489 words)
  • Shortest article: 0 column inches (7 words)
  • Longest article: 76 column inches (2282 words)
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