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Why Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol by Karen Moller Andy Warhol was not the first-person Valerie Solanas intended to kill, it was Maurice Girodias the founder of the Olympia Press, Paris printer of books banned in England and America. The 1950s and early 1960s were Girodias’ fruitful years.He was the most talked about avant-garde editor of the time and several of his books rode at the top of the bestseller list. Despite his faults, Girodias was a brilliant publisher. Most of his literary publications had an intellectualized sexual and political style. He opened La Grande Séverine a place of great elegance and style to launch his books, The Ginger Man, Lolita, Candy and Naked Lunch a...

When at length, Suresh was finding his moorings at Tihar; Subba Rau was brought in to a near stampede there. Why not, the whole nation knew him by then as the man who had pricked at the Premier’s face. When Suresh enquired what the fuss was all about, Rau said it was but a ‘literary coup’. Probed by Suresh for an account, Rau unfolded the story of his life and times as an unpublished writer. In his mid-forties, Rau was seized with an urge to bring himself onto the fictional stage. So to lend scope for his boundless creativity, he chose the vastness of the ‘novel’ as the setting. And for the medium of expression, he bypassed his mother tongue, Telugu, the Italian of the East. I...