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“... and to arrange for his family to be transported to the United States. Hamza’s ghost-writer is Jeff Stein, who, according to Google, contributes to intelligence stories for a range of print and Internet media. Usually, it isn’t clear in the book what is Hamza’s and what is Stein’s. But sometimes it is: ‘The ...”

“... Gertrude Stein knew how to make herself happy. Sometimes she was heroic, as when she delivered medical supplies to soldiers during the First World War by toddling over enemy lines in an old Ford. And in World War Two, she was honoured by the French Resistance for transmitting information during the Occupation. ‘Gertrude Stein, safe, safe, is safe’, came the press release from liberated Culoz ...”

“... with the laptop on my stomach – my mother had put me in the little upstairs room that used to be Jeff’s – I would reach over and unroll one in a smarmy, bourgeois, sugar-dazed languor. It was a heroin Christmas because I was reading the greatest book I’ve ever read: the jazz musician Art Pepper’s 1979 autobiography Straight Life: The Story of Art ...”

“... back into worthier literary ventures. This is the essence of GTP. Edna Ferber paid for Gertrude Stein. Ferber has been forgotten; Stein is eternalised in the Norton Anthology of American Literature. The ‘Jewish publishers’ appreciated that the important thing was to keep their great books in print. For bookmen like ...”

“... tart summation of a succès de scandale like Hirst’s sliced pig in formaldehyde (1996) or Jeff Koons’s ironico-kitsch porn from the early 1990s. Both artists, Foster observes, ‘presented … hype as the contemporary substitute for artistic aura’, and their ‘outraged opponents played … right into their hands, for together they produced a ...”

“... was the raddled and raspy Suzuki; my mother a much abused Cio-Cio San.After my stepbrother Jeff killed himself in 1982 my mother made the little upstairs room that had once been his into her creative lair – nine feet square of dense, paint-flecked, Crazy Glue squalor. Francis Bacon’s famously naff South Ken studio (now re-created in a Dublin ...”