There are memoirists like Child who write about what made them famous, or infamous. There are unremarkable people who write about a remarkable thing that happened to them. And there is the 21st century memoirist, who makes him- or herself interesting in order to write about it.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Autoblography
Mary Pols in Time, reviewing Julie & Julia, the first big-budget feature film of a book of a blog:
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Can't think what she means, Timster...
Ready for a good pasting at the Emirates tomorrow?
;)
Have a good weekend
xxx
Mort
a.s.w. (anti-spam-word) ringe. Wagnere's?
I should imagine there'll be a big budget feature of Wife In The North's blog/book at some point.
I quite like the idea of somebody who is posh, prickly and annoying such as Helen Lederer getting the lead role, but it'll probably end up being someone who is frail and lovely such as Emily Watson.
And if a man lived in obscurity making his friends in that obscurity, obscurity is not uninteresting.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Well we scored, Mort, which makes a change.
I was thinking Patricia Routledge, Betty.
Expat:
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
—Francis Picabia
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