Pages from Corvo. A biography of Frederick Rolfe by Donald weeks.
Lord of the Flies. William Golding.
Paul Bowles by Patrick Chartrain on Flickr.
Paul Bowles with luggage.
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. Frederick Rolfe. Baron Corvo.
Guide, Dennis Cooper.
We’re building prisons all over the world and calling tham luxury condos. The amazing thing is that the keys are all on the inside.
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Cocaine Nights.
J. G. Ballard.
Louie was a shoplifter who had lost what nerve he had ever had. He wore long, shabby, black overcoats that gave him all the look of a furtive buzzard. Thief and junky stuck out all over him. Louie had a hard time making it.
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Junkie.
William S. Burroughs.
Brian Howard’s was a chaotic, frustrating and in the end, for all its high-octane attachments, rather solitary life. Lived out for the most part in that exotic never-never land where the Ritz Bar meets the out-of-season contintental resort…Expected, not least by himself, to write novels that would out-Firbank Firbank in their orchidaceous subtleties, he ended up as a tragic-comic turn in works by other people.
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D. J. Taylor.
From the introduction to Brian Howard; Portrait of a failure.
Guide. Dennis Cooper.
The Orton Diaries.
Pages from the Burroughs File.
Pages from The Burroughs File.
Brian Howard. The real life inspiration for the flamboyant character Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh’s Bridehead Revisited. Unfortunately his downward spiral into alcoholism mirrored that of the Sebastian Flyte character.
