Diana Ross: An Encounter in Three Scenes

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LENGTH: 3 minutes (917 words)

Patti Smith: Family Life, Recent Loss, and New Album 'Gone Again'

Patti Smith in New York City. Catherine McGann/Getty Images She looks thin, frail, vulnerable. The hood of her sweat jacket is pulled up over her long, grayin
PUBLISHED: July 11, 1996
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1412 words)

Irvine Welsh: 'I'm the same kind of writer as I am a drinker. I'm a binger'

Irvine Welsh photographed in Leith, Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian When Irvine Welsh began writing 20 years ago, he hadn't much of a clue how to set about a novel. To get…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2462 words)
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