Hints and tips:
...She has been compared to both Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf for her focus on female protagonists and rhythmic prose, and she has been tipped as a Nobel Prize contender — a guessing game she describes...
...Van Morrison duets nicely on “I Got Nothin’”. It’s fine, blokey, knockabout stuff, but it won’t shake the world....
...“Sonny made Douglas write SLATFATFish by locking him in a hotel room and only letting him out for room service meals, while Sonny watched videos next door.”...
...The first record he bought was a seven-inch single of “Hootin’ Blues” by Sonny Terry, which cost one and six from Smith’s, the record shop in nearby Smithfield....
...He finished his set with the great Sonny Boy Williamson standard “Help Me”, and then growled his trademark sign-off into the swaying microphone: “It’s too late to stop now!”...
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