Stewart Home-Rebellion a la mode
Want to turn my attention away from ranting like a lunatic for at least one post and return to a favourite topic of mine, writing. In particular, I'd like to highlight a writer who I think has contributed a great deal to art in general and seems to be totally overlooked by the casual reader-even if he is praised incessantly by critics. Stewart Home, let's be clear on this to start, is brilliant but also completely mad. He's the author of books such as "69 Things to do with a Dead Princess", "Red London" and the title to remember "Whips & Furs-My life as a bon vivant , gambler & love rat ‘by’ Jesus H. Christ." If I ever read a title that could infuriate the Catholic Church more, I'll assume Stewart's writing under a pseudonym . As he has many a time. Home is a cultural commentator and political radical-leaning into the anarchist/left-wing spectrum that I can't pindown . And a very highbrow prankster. For a time, he was the...