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 . . .