Doomed and Famous

“The best moments lie in Dannatt’s musings on death itself, as, in death, “everything comes together as one giant, cosmic anecdote.” Dannatt’s collection is easy to dip into and difficult to put down.”
—Publishers Weekly

“If I were in charge of high school curricula, I’d make Doomed and Famous required reading, to empower eccentric young souls.”
—Kathelin Grey, Los Angeles Review of Books

”Doomed and Famous is a rare pleasure. A collection of obituaries mainly (but not always) of men, whose unusual lives Dannatt documents with a zealous commitment to the brief, the suicidal, the addicted, the long-lived, the extraordinarily rich, the flamboyant, the insouciantly poor, the innately glamorous and the artistic.”
—Perspective

“an enjoyable celebration of eccentricity, frequently tinged with melancholy”
—Henry Hitchings, Times Literary Supplement

Adrian Dannatt is a writer, curator, editor and artist. His fiction and poetry has been published in anthologies including Best British Short Stories and PEN New Poetry and his books include the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wim Delvoye, and most recently Les Lalanne- In the Domain of Dreams.

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