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On finding and losing yourself in the city: from Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf
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Writer and critic Matthew Beaumont spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about tracing the footsteps of literary authors in his new book, The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City.