Notes and queries: What's the worst town in literature?

Plus: Why is a two-minute nap so amazing? Gilbert O'Sullivan and Gang Starr join the bad pop rhymersWhat is the most unflattering description of a town in literature?Surely it's Bill Bryson's description of Blackpool in Notes From a Small Island: "On Friday and Saturday nights it has more public toilets than anywhere else in Britain; elsewhere they are called doorways."Julia Taylor, HastingsGeorge Orwell had a bit of a downer on Sheffield in The Road to Wigan Pier: "It has a population of half a...

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