Writers have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, writers, more than any other kind of artist, have taken their own lives in an extraordinary number of ways. With bullets, poison, drugs and swords, poets, playwrights, novelists and philosophers have sent themselves off into the big sleep. Others, one step shy of that last exit, have made great literature about the urge to self-destruction. For the first time, Gary Lachman investigates the many links between self-death and the written word, bringing together an unusual gallery of literary greats and a host of other fatal characters. Typically for Dedalus, the cover s gorgeous. Sasha Selavie in QX International Dead Letters ultimately proves to be at once stimulating and thought-provoking and the section devoted to various suicidal writings is most diverting. Peter Burton in One80 Reviews
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A founding member of the rock group Blondie, Gary Lachman wrote some of the band's early hits, before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full time writer. He is a regular contributor to The Fortean Times, and has written for The TLS, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Mojo, Bizarre, and other journals in the US and UK. Gary Lachman is the author of Turn Off Your Mind, an 'occult history' of the 1960s and The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse. As Gary Valentine, he wrote: New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, and, Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981,
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