{"id":17,"date":"2003-01-18T23:49:52","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2003-01-18T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2003-01-19T03:49:52","slug":"unauthorized-autobiographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Unauthorized Autobiographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am enchanted by the mini-genre of &#8220;Unauthorized Autobiographies.&#8221; Actually, I only know of two books that fit this genre: Chuck Barris&#8217;s wonderful <a title=\"Amazon.com: Books: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0786888083\/qid=1042962258\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/002-2191479-2112826\">Confessions of a Dangerous Mind<\/a>, recently reissued because it has been made into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miramax.com\/confessions\/\">film<\/a>, and the new one, of\/by the pseudonymous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060007192\/qid=1042962450\/sr=1-6\/ref=sr_1_6\/002-2191479-2112826?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Lemony Snicket<\/a>&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe idea of &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; self-revelations is sheer genius, and it applies very well to Barris&#8217; self-deprecating tale of his double life as game show producer and host, and hit man for the CIA. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the film&#8211;I don&#8217;t know when it is going to open in Seattle&#8211;and to seeing Mr. Barris in person on a promised book tour&#8211;it has already been postponed once, but hopefully it will be rescheduled. <\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve long been a Barris aficionado; I am probably one of only five people in North America who has seen <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0080808\">The Gong Show Movie,<\/a> with its brilliant hommage to Fellini, four or more times). <\/p>\n<p>As for Lemony Snicket&#8217;s unauthorized autobiography, I haven&#8217;t read it yet, but I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am enchanted by the mini-genre of &#8220;Unauthorized Autobiographies.&#8221; Actually, I only know of two books that fit this genre: Chuck Barris&#8217;s wonderful Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, recently reissued because it has been made into a film, and the new one, of\/by the pseudonymous Lemony Snicket&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}