How William S. Burroughs tried to cure Keith Richards’ heroin addiction
The unvonventional methods of a Beat icon.
Books
The turn of the century novelist Stephen King “idolises”
“If you can tell the truth, you’re on good grounds.”
Separate sides: The consequential friendship of Truman Capote and Harper Lee
A bond that affected them both.
Ern Malley: how a poet who never existed changed literature forever
The 20th-century’s most elusive poet.
“I have a special cold spot in my heart for it”: Stephen King names his favourite story
“Mostly because of what it says about small towns.”
The sickening emptiness of Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘Less Than Zero’
“People are afraid to merge on the freeway.”
Pissing Money Away: When Ernest Hemingway appropriated his favourite urinal
What goes in must come out.
Stephen King names the “best writer of horror fiction” in American history
“Yet to be surpassed as the 20th century’s greatest practitioner.”