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If You Liked 'Paperboy', You May Like This...

When I delivered ‘Paperboy’ to Simon Taylor, my editor, he took it on the chin very bravely – I had just jumped genres yet again to turn out something entirely unexpected – a biography about a would-be writer growing up in a house without books.

Much to my surprise – and everyone else’s – the book [...]

May 22nd, 2012 | Tags: | Category: Reading & Writing | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Emperor's New Clothes

It had to happen. The Hayward Gallery, itself no stranger to the world of fatuous modernity, is about to ask punters to shell out eight quid a ticket for ‘invisible’ art from Yoko Ono, Yves Klein and Andy Warhol.

Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012 opens on June 12 and includes an empty plinth, a [...]

May 22nd, 2012 | Tags: | Category: Music/ Film/ Art | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

Life – You Know, The Brand

This from my pal Rick Drew in Canada, reminds me that my social obligations now include wading through far too many social networks and answering emails from my shoes, my hair product and people who want to send me their 7,000 page novel about vampires. I also belong to something that really is called ‘Life’ [...]

May 22nd, 2012 | Tags: | Category: Media | One comment - (Comments are closed)