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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