Culture is the aspect of life that is suffering most

Writer Donal Ryan has had to go back to the day job in order to make ends meet. Michael Clifford says that ‘culture is the aspect of life that is suffering most because it can’t sustain those who want to make a living in some of the art forms’.

EVERY now and again, somebody got their hands on a number. It might be mentioned on the site, or in one of the bars out around Jackson Heights.

The number would be passed around on torn sheets from notebooks, or, as often, on the napkins used as beer mats in US pubs.