Lisa Schwarzbaum

In placing the emphasis on the rule-breaking Barbara Jill Walters had to do over her long life…the biographer pays respect to a toughness easy to undervalue today, when the collective memory may see only the well-connected woman with the instantly recognizable speech impediment.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

@annehelen Rachel Cusk! Outline and Transit!

Lisa Schwarzbaum

This relatively raw, momentarily candid reflection by one of the great Hollywood stars of the second half of the 20th century... explore[s] his ambivalent relationships with his own beauty, sex appeal, career, family and relationships.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

There is nothing fresh here, not to anyone who, loving Sondheim, has already probably read a lot by and about him. There is, instead, evidence of a vulnerable late-life fragility and creative depression that the journalist hopes to package as reflection.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Williams died of a drug overdose in his Brooklyn apartment at the age of 54, before publication... He wanted to give back to his community and speak to young vulnerable people about his rough journey. This book gives back in the direst of ways.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

@annehelen Rachel Cusk! Outline and Transit!