I was very sad but not surprised to hear about the death of Amy Winehouse at 27. Whatever the circumstances this week, it’s fair to say she probably spent too much of her life surrounded by god-awful yes-people and hangers on bearing as many courtesy wraps and pills as they could carry. If I was… [Read more…]
May 21, 2008
This appeared in yesterday’s Evening Standard, and is on the Daily Mail website today: Was My Boozing To Blame For My Stroke? And, finally! A picture from the set taken in January, with me in a pink suit. I thought those shots must have disappeared.
February 28, 2008
I’ve been one, so I’m allowed to say it. Here is Antonia Quirke in the New Statesman, reviewing Cleaning Up. There are shades of the snitty Guardian review here, albeit in a different way. I have to ask myself whether these writers (and they are both published authors) were working from the same book as… [Read more…]
July 25, 2011
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