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Ian Penman: Arthur Russell's Benediction, 15 August 2024
Travels over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life
by Richard King.
Faber, 296 pp., £30, April,978 0 571 37966 8 Show More
by Richard King.
Faber, 296 pp., £30, April,
“... they possibly have in common, these wildly different figures, the nature boy and the urban genie?Charles Arthur Russell Jr was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa in May 1951, and died in New York in April 1992 from complications related to Aids. His father, Chuck, a former naval officer, was the town mayor. It’s easy to picture something down-home and folksy, but the ... ”