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...Afterwards, says his publisher, "his childhood took a turn for the bizarre with electroshock machine fun and games; month-long family/patient sleep-overs on the front lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs the book enthusiastically. "I was reminded of Roald Dahl's 'Boy' and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'...Burroughs has produced a memoir that's funny and sharp but also humane...
...Mitchell Gold Co. of Taylorsville, N.C., which they founded together in 1989 and which has grown into a business that sold close to $70 million worth of furniture last year. That may sound paltry next to the hundreds of millions pulled in by such A-list retailers as Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Restoration Hardware (armchair giant La-Z-Boy did $2.6 billion in sales last year). But guess who makes most of their upholstered furniture? And the leather club chairs and slipcover sofas in Ally McBeal and Friends? Mitchell Gold...
...leather had to look old. After a long search, Gold found a factory in the Netherlands with a process for distressing leather to make it look artificially aged. He bought up its entire year's output, $100,000 worth, and turned the exclusive rights over to Pottery Barn...
Gold's alliance with Pottery Barn was just the first in a string of special relationships with retailers that has given him unmatched access to middle-class American households and has impressed industry watchers. "It's quite unusual to have captured them to the extent that he has," says Donna Warner, veteran editor of urban-style bible Metropolitan Home. These relationships come partly from connections Gold made during his stint as a buyer: when Pottery Barn decided to start carrying furniture, a friend there made sure its buyers knew about Gold and vice versa. He has also consistently backed...
...work, or at least his influence. "I do think about not letting stuff get too pedestrian," Gold says. "I was in London a few months ago, and I saw all this furniture being unloaded into a flat, and I said, 'That's my Kathleen sofa! That's my Pottery Barn chair! This is really too much!'" Never one to miss an opportunity, Gold walked right in and introduced himself to the owner. "The first thing she asked me was 'Where's Lulu...