Memoirs and Autobiographies: S & D

Just read Scott Mills' one. Should be starting a new column for V**E where I do really earnest reviews of celebrity biographies I get in Poundland.

whats the ! all about?

sounds perfect

is it called Scott Mills: A Life in Monochrome?

Scott Mills: Love You Bye

Not too bad as far as these things go. Racing through Lee Mack's 'Mack the Life' which is proving to be shamefully entertaining. Dreading reading the Rowland Rivron one.

Favorites:

Luis Buñuel - My Last Sigh
Gore Vidal - Palimpsest
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Words
Martin Amis - Experience
Philip Roth - Patrimony
Simone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death

The last great one I read was Patti Smith's Just Kids.

Aldous Huxley's Grey Eminence is v good, dunno if it fits the bill though.

Very much would i think, she has damned near a fetish for mothy english intellectual types iirc

lauren slater, 'lying'

what's the genealogy for this kind of literary memoir, with this voice? everything has the hell written out of it, for sure, but somehow reading it i feel like there would be no point to thinking seriously about it, not because of the author's business about not telling the truth, but just because the stylization seems so automatic now - and i am not a person who reads a lot of contemporary 'literary' non/fiction - that it seems like there could be little to it but performance. i guess i felt similarly reading maggie nelson last year.