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Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World by Elizabeth Young

stewarthome's review

5.0

The deaths of writers Robin Cook, Kathy Acker and Laurence James were all deeply upsetting for me, and made my shock at the passing of Elizabeth Young in March [2001] all the more traumatic. Liz read compulsively and when a new book came out by someone we both admired — say Bridget Penney or Darius James — we’d spend hours discussing it. Not that Liz restricted her interests to books: alongside well thumbed tomes her Ladbroke Grove flat was filled with some of the most unbelievable kitsch I’ve ever encountered — brightly coloured cushions, garish clothes and novelty knickknacks.

You can read the whole of my Liz Young tribute/obituary here: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/excerpt-memphis-underground-ii/