Hints and tips:
...I enjoyed a late-arriving cameo from William Burroughs, commanding a London dinner table with “the slow, canny, rural drawl of a screwball professor and the intonations of WC Fields”....
...Caesars Entertainment will name Anthony Rodio to replace departing chief executive Mark Frissora, the WSJ reports....
...Without Naked Lunch, it is safe to say, JG Ballard would not have written Crash, or Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange. By any standards, Burroughs’ was an eventful life....
...But for a well told story the easy winner is Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. Yet its claims as a business book are vitiated by its own conclusion....
...● Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, an explanation of how internet-based collaboration can be harnessed to produce even more innovative content, products and services....
...anthony.haden-guest@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/hadenguest...
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