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Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
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2024
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Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop (The Mixtape Series)
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Fucking RIPS. I love Tom Wolfe because I, too, love to overuse emphatic exclamation points with a slightly ironic, wry POV because, if we really think about it, you could argue "well, this IS how people's internal narratives sound!" in long run-on sen ...more |
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| Absolutely captivating historical fiction. I'm in awe of all the research that clearly went into this. A triumph! ...more | |
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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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“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.”
― Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
― 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.”
― Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
― 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?”
― Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
― Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius