"When the feed-mill co-operative where he worked was taken over by Amalgamated Farmers in 1991, Reading refused to wear the company overalls, and was promptly dismissed. Of course, overalls are all right for 'other' people, 'the gross sub-species and freaks, swilling at the bar,' say, that Reading writes about in 5x5x5x5x5." Ian Sansom • TLS

---