Hints and tips:
...The couple were living there in 1951 when Burroughs shot and killed Vollmer during a drunken game....
...As you might know, the saga was expertly chronicled by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar in Barbarians At The Gate. If you haven’t read it, do. It’s a stone-cold classic....
...Rose, my daughter. I could give her things that were missing in my childhood in terms of self-esteem, self-image....
...Sales of HIV drugs rose 54 per cent last year to £2.3bn compared with a 7 per cent fall in the broader pharmaceuticals business....
...The group’s HIV revenues rose by 56 per cent in the first nine months of the year to $1.6bn, compared with a 7 per cent decline in respiratory drugs to $8.8bn....
...On the way, I bought roses from a local deli and wrote on their paper wrapping a short message of thanks and love to Bowie from me and my brother Mark....
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...The son of Caribbean immigrants, Basquiat broke on to the New York underground art scene aged 19; over the next eight years, with the backing of Andy Warhol, he rose to international prominence with his...
...Iain Sinclair’s latest book is ‘Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report’ (Hamish Hamilton)...
...Great plumes of black smoke rose into the sky over north London. He didn’t take another photograph for 30 years. In fact, Duffy had all but disappeared off the cultural radar – until now....
...But he brought the divisions together, and sales rose from £100m ($200m) to more than £1bn....
...In Cornwall, a county in the far south-west previously seen as the preserve of artists and surfers, for example, property values rose by 16.4 per cent from 2006 to 2007, outperforming the “stockbroker” belt...
...The two had met while working at Burroughs, a computer company which later became part of Unisys, and had remarkably similar ideas about the sort of company they wanted to run....
...Parents, Joan and George Lewis, inhabit another farmhouse a few steps away, and sister Rose has recently moved into a cottage nearby....
...Salinger, William Burroughs and Bret Easton Ellis (the last of whom she knows socially through her father). Jane Austen is judged “boring feminist crap” (feminist?)...
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