A Curious Career

Author(s): Lynn Barber

Biography / Memoir

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.

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A wonderfully frank and funny memoir of Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber

Barber's recollections of her time as a celebrity interviewer follow the success of An Education, 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 Sunday Times 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 Praise for Lynn Barber: 'Barber's elegant prose radiates love -- Jane Shilling Daily Telegraph 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

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

General Fields

  • : 9781408837191
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.355
  • : April 2014
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 224
  • : 070.92
  • : Jun-14
  • : Hardback
  • : Lynn Barber