rude letter

[realthog]

The rudest Christmas letter ever written by Roger Lewis

says a headline in today's Independent. The long article's opener states:

Each Christmas, the critic and biographer Roger Lewis sends friends a seasonal 'suicide note'. In hilariously caustic prose, it details family crises, the true awfulness of his celebrity acquaintances, and the dreary reality of a writer's life in the British provinces. This year's was his rudest and most outrageous ever . . .

In full at: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3266503.ece

Comments

Roger Lewis

[guidoeekhaut.livejournal.com]

Indeed, great reading. How are his books? He's probably one of those last great English eccentrics.

Re: Roger Lewis

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of his books, I'm afraid. One of those mentioned at the foot of the piece, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, was (I assume) the basis for the successful movie a few years back; mind you, I haven't seen the movie, either . . .

Re: Roger Lewis

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

I read it a couple of years ago. Wasn't wild about it. This is much better. "We all feel like that now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that." I almost snorted my dinner all over the laptop. Brilliant stuff.