I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder competing to outdo each other

competing to outdo each other in wit and brilliance

pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century

Wade uncovers the origins of Stein's radical writing

He is a man of the land

chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death

I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder competing to outdo each otherChuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. 'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. Joey lives paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck's luxury flat a world away from Joey's cramped house share, the crumbs in her bed. Soon, Joey's imagining