Please recommend things by and about angry young (and old) men (and women) in here, but I am particularly interested in angry young proletarians done good, like John Osborne and Tony Harrison, rather than any angsty feminist crap or Germaine Greer and Elizabeth Wurtzel, for example. "The Catcher in the Rye" and just about anything and everything by Harold Pinter would be far more appropriate to what I am thinking of.

Two of my favourite books are "The Life of Kingsley Amis" by Zachary Leader and "Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise" by John Osborne (which mainly consists of "A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, 1929-1956" and "Almost a Gentleman: An Autobiography, 1955-66"). I enjoyed Anthony Thwaite's "Selected Letters of Philip Larkin" and "Philip Larkin: A Life" more than I ever have any of Larkin's poetry. I 'like' "Puntila" by Brecht and "The Kitchen" by Arnold Wesker and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

i used to speak to alan silitoe on the phone when i worked in a rare books shop. he lived nearby, but never came in. bit of a hermit i believe

i think john updike's the centaur is almost an angry young man book, though the narration is shared by the father as well as his son. best updike i've ever read

I've read it. mwah. mwah mwah.

did it give you psoriasis?

no. it really gave me the horn, though.

I often refer to "rabbit is rich" when I am talking about money being freudo-marxist for shit. "the bubbles multiplied like coins..." I am in no fit state to talk. how is kesh? he's a cutie. I hate my writing. "the loneliness of the long distance runner" is probably my favourite british film.

tell me something. mwah.