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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.
- Sales Rank: #755997 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-05-08
- Released on: 2014-05-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
Packed full of incredible stories Glamour The book of the career of the ferocious interviewer: what happens, she says, when a nosy child grows up to find her perfect job -- Katy Guest Independent on Sunday Lots of fun ... very moving Evening Standard 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 The queen bee of the celebrity interview Daily Mail For a guide [to journalism], there could be no better place to start than with Lynn Barber's second volume of autobiography, A Curious Career -- Olivia Cole GQ Funny, thoughtful and beautifully written Glamour Barber's back with a candid and extremely entertaining account of her early career as a celebrity interviewer that's packed with anecdotes illuminating both her own and her interviewees' lives ... I read this in a sitting, unable to stop smiling Women & Home a riot of a read - funny, irreverent, artlessly frank -- Decca Aitkenhead Guardian Barber turned the interview into an art form ... Like all the best conjurors, she relies on speed, practice, psychological insight, a powerful imagination and phenomenally acute observation. For nearly half a century she has held up a mirror in which her contemporaries see themselves reflected with a precision and panache most novelists would envy - and most biographers too -- Hilary Spurling Guardian
About the Author
Lynn Barber is an award-winning British journalist. Several collections of her interviews have been anthologised. She read English Literature at Oxford, worked for Penthouse magazine for seven years, then for the Sunday Express, Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, Observer and Sunday Times. Her books include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber, as well as two sex manuals and a study of Victorian naturalists. Her memoir, An Education, was made into an award-winning film starring Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike. She lives in north London. @lynnbaba
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting if you are a fan of Barber's interviews but...
By Shopper
I found it rather sloppily written. Tossed off. I'm also rather disappointed that she is a self-confessed philistine. Doesn't seem to enjoy or even understand the arts. For someone who has grown up in the 60s, she is surprisingly conservative about many things...especially marriage. Her self-consciousness begins to grate after the first chapters. Seems she wants to deny she has a depressive personality which would explain many things rather than the trite and jolly explanations she gives. I have both collections of her interviews which I have read and reread often but reading her memoir left me feeling less admiration for her.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A bouquet of barbed wire.
By SueKich
I'm going to have to put my cards on the table here. I'm from the same generation as Lynn Barber; I've reached the stage in my life when I know what I like and I'm not going to do anything anymore that I don't like. Well, not if I can help it anyway. One of the things I certainly no longer enjoy is reading interviews with actors. You trudge through yards and yards of newsprint only to *discover* that, yes, they love to play 'challenging parts' and, yes, they 'can't wait to work with the director again' and, oh yes, they prefer to keep 'their personal lives private'. And just like that, another half-hour of your precious life has disappeared down the plug-hole.
One interviewer I always do read however, even when she's interviewing an actor, is of course the Demon Barber. And in this book we learn why her interviews always prove to be so interesting. Firstly, it's because she does her homework, spending a huge amount of time on research before the interview (so she won't ask the interviewee something they've been asked a hundred times before). She wastes not a second of precious interview time and refuses to do less than a one hour interview (she explains how nowadays even serious interviewers get trapped by the PR machine into flying half way round the world for a 15-minute slot with a star.) She always tapes her interviews (so perhaps 'a bouquet of wired barbs' would be a more accurate header) and spends at least a week writing them up.
This book contains the background to a selection of interviews, all of which make fascinating reading, even the ones where people I like or admire come off rather badly (Martin Clunes and Rafa Nadal). A Curious Career also updates the reader on Barber's terrific memoir An Education. Lynn Barber is self-aware, occasionally acerbic (and therefore sometimes quite scary), intuitive, intelligent and she also comes across as devastatingly honest. Above all, she is genuinely interested in people. This book is highly recommended for anyone who feels the same.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing and self-reverential - not fun to read and nasty tone makes it ugly
By NY Believer
After all the review hype, I looked forward to reading this book, and I was terribly disappointed. Ms. Barber says that finding a husband is more important than any career - then never says why she continues to work (clearly for money, not for artistry). She hates interviewing actors, considering them beneath her for some reason - but she happily takes money for working with them. There are many rehashed, old interviews that we could have done without - there is a reason why she is unknown in the US, it's because she's not a great writer by any means. The nasty, judgemental sections about Martin Clunes and Rafael Nadal just show how little skill she has - clearly she likes to shock her audience, but it's really about her opinions of other people, the person being interviewed should be the star of the piece, but Barber makes it about herself. The chapter about Marianne Faithful is a hoot - as Barber goes out of her way to put down this icon, writing negative stuff at all times, then rehashes an old article which we are supposed to think is great (it's far from great, it's just ugly), and then she finally writes about Ms. Faithful talking to real journalists about Barber, something about apologizing to her? What for, we wonder - for Barber behaving unprofessionally and interrupting a photo shoot with David Bailey, as if Barber has something better to do? Like her "dinner with friends" is so vitally important that a photo shoot with 2 icons from the 60s should stop for her? WHAT?! Despite her lack of training or talent, Barber is so self-centered, she thinks the celebrities she interviews should just talk about her! You learn that Barber never had any training in journalism, just 7 years at Penthouse (hardly a great training ground for a WRITER, now perhaps as a photographer...) and she coasts from job to job on her connections. We can guess that, because her writing is terrible, nasty and often just boring. Having had this little sample of her "work," which she would NOT be doing if she could find a husband to live off of, I have learned the hard way to avoid her in future - which won't be difficult, as she is and will remain an unknown outside of a small UK readership. Avoid this book, it's not worth reading for any reason.
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