I've been reading a lot of biographies lately (because I'm writing one myself, on George Turner, Australia's leading science fiction writer). I have been very undiscerning in my choices, reading anything from very serious ones on famous writers, artists and world figures to some less highbrow but just as interesting ones. None has caught my imagination as much as Victor Bockris's wonderful biography of Andy Warhol, which I purchased from the throwaway table of a…
