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Doomed and Famous
A professional obituary writer gathers his strangest characters in a book and accompanying exhibition in celebration of life not death.
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Adrian Dannatt s Doomed and Famous with Illustrations by Hugo Guinness (Sequence Press, 2021)
“But this is my obituarist he has to come in with me.” Saying so, my friend led me through the velvet ropes of the most exclusive nightclubs of Manhattan. And it is true, for when he dies I will gather together the many details I have jotted down over the years about his extraordinary life, blotched notes from dawn bars and midnight wharf walks to write his story, one unlikely to be told otherwise; diamon