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Philip Taffs

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I got fired from an ad agency and began writing 'Bubby' that very afternoon.

(Coincidence?)

It was rejected everywhere you can possibly be rejected across 3 continents before finally being picked up by those geniuses at Quercus in London - who were smart enough to also publish 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'.

I had a short story - about Elvis not really being dead and entering an Elvis impersonators competition - published in a generous magazine that paid me $900 when I was broke… and won a PEN International Award for another one about a butcher’s assistant who gets locked in a freezer…but that's another story.

When I'm not writing, I'm watching old movies or screaming at the Carlton Football Club.

It's hard to believe but I have two sons who ...more

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Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

by Roger Lewis

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Don't Fear Death!

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Ways of Escape: An Autobiography

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A clever young man’s book about another clever young man. Hard to believe it’s more than 50 years old. It’s like a flâneur on the wall, « Noises Off » version of «Saltburn. » Scabrous and scurrilous yet working toward a tenderness that Charles Highw ...more
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This plague of pages. Well written but ultimately worthless. A long drawn-out conjuror’s trick with no final reveal. You can’t be this pretentious and provocative without a sucker punch to make it worth stepping into the ever-expanding ring.
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