Hints and tips:
...That or I’d have gone into a K-hole of mute anxiety as the former “number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe” wiped the floor with me in unsparing, affectless prose....
...Joni Mitchell, Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline — my musical influences swing from tree to tree. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success?...
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...So get crackin, and don’t come back until our 10-K reveals nothing!”...
...It started as a group that stood up for gay FCO staff, she says, but has become a “patsy, sweetheart organisation”....
...(Dick Thornburgh and Lou Boccardi dissing James Goodale.)...
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