Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
Lucky we’re in lockdown because this 976-page biography of big old gay old Andy Warhol could only ever be read at home. Maybe propped on a table. Or a tray. And it is the biography that anyone who’s anyone (and quite a few people who are no one at all!) is perusing. You know the story: small-town gay discovers talent, moves to the city, becomes a superstar (actually invents the word ‘superstar’), meets everyone, rakes in the money, stops by Studio 54, gets shot by crazed woman, survives… we hope we’re not giving anything away here. Oh and it turns out he wasn’t a weird asexual after all, but actually loved men to get their, ahem, manhoods out for him to inspect. We need more like that at Jake!
£35, hardback, Allen Lane
