Diary 
Andrew O’Hagan
Among people who care to be remembered, there can’t be many who would settle for being remembered for what was said to them as opposed to what they said themselves. David Livingstone went through hell before arriving at Lake Tanganyika in October 1871, but his stories about that journey would never enter the language the way Stanley’s would, when he caught up with him at Ujiji.
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Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Other articles by this contributor:
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Good Fibs · Truman Capote
Disgrace under Pressure · Andrew O’Hagan reads some lad mags
Seventy Years in a Filthy Trade · Andrew O’Hagan meets E.S. Turner
Hating Football · Andrew O’Hagan deserts the Tartan Army
The God Squad · Andrew O’Hagan in Bushland
At the Design Museum · Peter Saville
How to Survive Your Own Stupidity · Homage to Laurel and Hardy
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