Becoming famous in any field generally opens up new opportunities—it’s like hitting the Easy Button on your artistic dreams. A lot of actors seem to harbor the desire to become published authors, possibly because looking pretty on camera doesn’t necessarily bestow respect, especially when your clever bon mots are all written by someone else. While we might argue […]
Some people can sit down and write the story of their lives in a clear and straightforward fashion and be done. Other people, like New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast—author of wise, honest, unreasonably entertaining new graphic memoir about aging, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?—approach autobiography per Emily Dickinson’s legendary advice: Tell all the truth but tell […]
I’m a huge fan of audiobooks, especially when they have a great narrator, and I can’t imagine a more perfect pairing of book and reader than Meryl Streep performing the late, great Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. Movie buffs are no doubt nodding in recognition, recalling that Streep is, in fact, so right for the role that she played the female […]
The brilliant and funny Lauren Graham wrote a novel! It’s called Someday, Someday, Maybe, and it comes out on April 30. I asked Ms. Graham about her writing habits, her characters, and her New York experience. Spoiler alert: like every other human, she wastes a lot of time on the internet (stars! They’re just like […]
“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.” Princess. Writer. Legend. Carrie Fisher, the novelist and actress who became an icon when she was cast in 1977’s Star Wars at age 19, has died. She suffered a heart attack during a flight from London to her home in Los […]