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Carrie Courogen is the author of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius. She is a writer, editor, and director based in New York. ...more

Average rating: 3.82 · 809 ratings · 197 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
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3.82 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 2024
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3.76 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions
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Terrific prose that kept me turning page after page, to be sure, but—forgive me for this—I feel like I've read this story several times already. I think, even for the staunchest of supporters like myself, we've sort of hit MeToo fatigue, and therefor ...more
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"We've read this story before, so there were not really any "gasp out loud" moments for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed the writing on this.

Even though I knew exactly where this was going most of the time, and the ending was not surprising, I found myse" Read more of this review »
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Could not put this down. Tense and uncomfortable in the best possible sense its blunt honesty, and utterly, compulsively readable. I kept finding myself drawn not only to the portrayal of deep, almost-guilty feeling of imagining oneself within a diff ...more
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fucking brilliant.
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stunning and propulsive and an incredible manipulation of form and structure. give me more novels that have breakout asides with backstory and context and related-but-not pieces of information.

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“Everyone at the University of Chicago was smart—there was no arguing that—but Elaine was a world-wise woman among children, with a mind that seemed to run only at high speed, a cruel wit that could be weaponized at a moment’s notice, and an intimidating raw and unbalanced intelligence that came from all those years of skipping school to devour books on her own instead.”
Carrie Courogen, Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

“Their humor came from calling bullshit on the status quo so many held dear, from digging into the psychology of the absurdities of human behavior and leaning into taboo topics others were afraid to touch.”
Carrie Courogen, Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

“She resented the need “to start pleasing this tremendous unknown audience” where “you can only use safe material. But the only subject that’s really safe is parking—and there’s just so much you can say about parking.”56 She had success, but at what cost?”
Carrie Courogen, Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

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