A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most
ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber. 'Packed full of incredible
stories' Glamour 'Funny, bold, incisive, clever and interesting'
Independent 'Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it
in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout' Zoe Heller Lynn
Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling
sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she
constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of
their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual
lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, turned out
to be the perfect qualification for a celebrity interviewer. In A
Curious Career, Lynn Barber takes us from her early years as a
journalist at Penthouse - where she started out interviewing foot
fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies
- to her later more eminent role interrogating a huge cross-section
of celebrities ranging from politicians to film stars, comedians,
writers, artists and musicians. A Curious Career is full of
glorious anecdotes - the interview with Salvador Dali that, at
Dali's invitation, ended up lasting four days, or the drinking
session with Shane MacGowan during which they planned to rob a
bank. It also contains eye-opening transcripts, such as her
infamous interview with the hilarious and spectacularly rude
Marianne Faithfull. A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by
Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, A Curious Career
is also a fascinating window into the lives of celebrities and the
changing world of journalism.
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