{"product_id":"9781408837191","title":"A Curious Career","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Curious Career\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lynn Barber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Curious Career\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynn Barber takes us from her early years as a journalist at \u003ci\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/i\u003e - 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. \u003ci\u003eA Curious Career \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, \u003ci\u003eA Curious Career \u003c\/i\u003eis also a fascinating window into the lives of celebrities and the changing world of journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Barber's recollections of her time as a celebrity interviewer follow the success of \u003ci\u003eAn Education\u003c\/i\u003e, her memoir of her early life. It should be a delight, dripping with gems about her encounters with everyone from Rudolf Nureyev to Lady Gaga.” —\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Packed full of incredible stories.” —\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book of the career of the ferocious interviewer: what happens, she says, when a nosy child grows up to find her perfect job.” —\u003ci\u003eKaty Guest, Independent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barber's elegant prose radiates love.” —\u003ci\u003eJane Shilling, Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lots of fun . . . very moving.” —\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, bold, incisive, clever and interesting.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout.” —\u003ci\u003eZoe Heller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The queen bee of the celebrity interview.” —\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For a guide [to journalism], there could be no better place to start than with Lynn Barber's second volume of autobiography, \u003ci\u003eA Curious Career\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eOlivia Cole, GQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, thoughtful and beautifully written.” —\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A riot of a read--funny, irreverent, artlessly frank.” —\u003ci\u003eDecca Aitkenhead, Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eHilary Spurling, Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A terrific read . . . Lynn Barber can take an over-interviewed, not-terribly-interesting celebrity and write 5,000 words about them that are so clever, bold and funny you want to read to the very end.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For fans of Lynn Barber, \u003ci\u003eA Curious Career \u003c\/i\u003ewill delight and entertain. For anyone contemplating a career in celebrity journalist, it's absolutely indispensible. *****” —\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barber brilliantly nails the ghastly black-comedy irrationality of grief and the quietly heroic business of keeping-on keeping-in while everything simultaneously stops making sense . . . Barber's wince-making eloquence on the pain of fresh widowhood lingered long after I finished \u003ci\u003eA Curious Career\u003c\/i\u003e. And then at the end I felt terribly disappointed; even having read it as slowly as I dared, at 211 pages it was all over far too quickly . . . both on the page and in real life, Lynn Barber invariably leaves you wanting more.” —\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incredibly satisfying and enjoyable: witty, mischievous, insightful, and, one occasion, elegiac . . . A veritable masterclass in how it's done.” —\u003ci\u003eRachel Cooke, Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She cuts, sparkles, is sometimes generous, never daunted, always full of verve . . . Readers will love this pacy, absorbing book.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A hugely enjoyable read--the gold standard of professional prying.” —\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] terrific new memoir . . . Ms. Barber is top-flight company.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781408837191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40595099058382,"sku":"9781408837191","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1a837357-9004-4f25-9458-b7d827af6c69.jpg?v=1637824352","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781408837191","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}