Howard stern autobiography
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Private Parts
It surprised me how perfectly it captures Stern's voice. I had no expectations about the prose -- it always surprises me how the average person, say, can speak perfectly articulately but can't write at all -- and even the greatest entertainers usually write insipid autobiographies, but the book's written in Stern's exact voice. Whether that the credit ought to go to Stern or the writer who helped him, I can't say (from the acknowledgments: "Most people assume that the author of this kind of celebrity book just hires a guy to write a book for him. I always assumed that as well, so I went right out and hired Larry "Ratso" Sloman. Ratso's first job was to inform me that I'd have to wrte the book myself. I should have fired him for insubordination."), but it's like listening to a good episode of the show, with his neuroses and sexual obsessions and s
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Howard Stern Comes Again
“[A] hefty all-star tutorial on the art of the interview… It’s the intimacy Stern establishes with his subjects that makes this collection worthwhile.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Stern’s decades in radio have unquestionably honed in him the near-mystical ability to get a guest talking freely, which is much, much harder than it looks. Even stripped of his voice — a velvety purr that remains one of the great radio voices — the interviews have palpable chemistry…[The ones] with comedians and talk show hosts, it seems to me, are especially fine. Collectively they serve as an oral history of contemporary comedy in America…More important, the book implicitly raises thorny questions about responsibility, agency and forgiveness, especially in the context of #MeToo and its fraught narratives of personal downfall and potential redemption…These matters are ineluctably complex and subjective, and in this, at least, Howard Stern Comes Again is perfectly of its time.”
—Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post
“[Stern] wrote lively introductions for each interview. He also composed an introduction that is detailed and charming, autobiographical but also self-reflectively honest…It is, on a number of levels, a terrific book. Only two of its in
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Private Parts (book)
Book by English radio hotelkeeper Howard Stern
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