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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Aug 14
‘Even his enemies admired his chutzpah’: How Trump became a God of New York in the 1980s
The back cover of this history of New York calls it “a real-life Bonfire of the Vanities”. Tom Wolfe’s bestselling 1987 novel about a bond trader who comes a cropper in a very serious way is also refe...
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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Aug 14
How a book forger fooled the literary world until his audacious ruse was rumbled
Controversy in the book world, like the debate around the veracity of The Salt Path, is nothing new. Excerpts from Konrad Kujau’s faked Hitler Diaries were published through various outlets in the 198...
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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Aug 3
Pat Carty on the New Lad: ‘Wherever they ended up, the Oasis reunion was like a bat signal, calling them out of the shadows for one last adventure, one last moment of belonging’
Whatever happened to the likely lads? If you’re old enough to remember the 1990s, then I’m afraid at this point you are officially getting on a bit. It’s now 31 years since Oasis released their debut ...
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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Jul 20
Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Jul 18
Dinner with Charlton and backstage with Nureyev - an ode to the golden age of the celebrity interview, recounted by a master practitioner
After steering Celtic rock heroes Horslips’s unique course, Eamon Carr made a poacher/gamekeeper transition and returned to writing to earn his bread. The problem with interrogating musicians is that ...
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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Jul 14
A riveting history of tanks - Mark Urban’s evolution of the military machine hits the bullseye
Volodymyr Zelensky, a persuasive talker when not being ambushed by presidential tag teams, cajoled Western leaders into supplying the hardware that he believed was key “to breaking the Russian occupat...
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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Jul 7
‘I said, Geldof, this is gonna hurt but it’ll help, and scratched his back like a maniac. It gave him a sexual identity with the girls’– BP Fallon’s life and times
“I’m amazed there hasn’t been a film about BP Fallon before,” says Bob Geldof, not far into BP Fallon: Rock’n’Roll Wizard. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the true adventures of Bernard Patrick Fal...
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Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
· Jul 5
Pat Carty: Glastonbury's main stages showed a changing of the guard from old men to young women
Last weekend I made an annual rock and roll pilgrimage. Not actually to Worthy Farm in Somerset, you understand, but rather to my own front room. “Oh, you watched it on television,” the purists howl....
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