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Happy Birthday

Im writing this on July 4th. On the television there are flickering satellite pictures of Americans at play and very rum too: blond children, their faces deeply smeared with watermelon, the Tallahassee Munich Restaurant Marching Band in leather shorts and braces, the Ice Maidens of Ohio squaredancing with no clothes on.

October 1, 1976
Simon Frith

LETTER FROM BRITAIN

Simon Frith

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