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Evelyn Juers

Evelyn Juers is a biographer, essayist and critic. The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen (Giramondo, 2021) is her most recent work.

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Janis Joplin and the Sisters of Excess

HEAT 7
1998

Janis Joplin (1943-1970) did not die in a fire. But it is often premised that she burned out. An overdose of unexpectedly pure heroin killed her. Accidentally. She killed herself. The ambiguity of victim or suicide remains unresolved.

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