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Ned Beauman

is the author of the novel Boxer, Beetle, winner of the UK Writers' Guild Award and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. He was born in London and now lives in New York.

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Fail Worse

By Ned BeaumanFebruary 9, 2012
Beckett's "Fail better" is now experimental literature's equivalent of the famous Che Guevara photo: a successful brand with no particular owner
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