The Allegedly 'classy' Magazines Often Seem To

As A Precocious Teen I Dreamed Of Being Graham Greene. Well, As It Turned Out, I Never Wrote A Great Novel, Sadly, And I Never Converted To Catholicism, Happily, But I Did Do One Thing He Did. That Is, In Middle Age I Moved To A Seaside Town And Got Into A Right Barney With The Local Powers-that-be.

Some Say That Cusk Has No Sense Of Humour, But Expecting Giggles From This Writer Would Be Akin To Expecting Sonnets From Benny Hill.

I Believe, Literally, In The God Of The Old Testament, Whom I Understand As The Lord Of The Jews And The Protestants. I'm A Christian Zionist, As Well As A Christian Feminist And A Christian Socialist.

Being A Monarchist, And Fawning Over Those 'above' You, You Must Naturally Despise Those 'below' Or On The Same Socioeconomic Level As Yourself, Because That Is How Hierarchy Worship Works.

'stress' Was The Catch-all Every Pamper-pedlar I Spoke To Used To Explain Why Healthy Women Feel The Need To Be Regularly Patted, Petted And Preened Into A State Of Babyish Beatification.