kirkus calls the book, quote, an insider's often dismaying picture of natiol politics.on congresswoman ocasio-cortez, kirkus wris, quote, as aoc became a prominent media personality, she and the rest of the squad were increasingly targeted. aoc, whom grimm portrays as a consensus builder and people pleaser, was thrust into the role of rebel and, quote well, this week on book tv's afterwards program, it's the wall street journal's jeff horwitz. he talked about facebook's growth as a tech company and the challenges that its platform has faced over time. here's a look. and i had a hard time believing this at first when i saw these stats that it essentially anything that damaged growth or daily usage. and when i say damaged, i mean literally reduced by 0.05%. that was dead on arrival. you could not change the platform in ways that reduced usage. that was just simply not allowed ever. and fact, as facebook's growth slowed. those rules t en more stringent. right. like anything that would decrease any metric that was related to usage was just dead on arrival. and, you know, th

drag queens reading in the public but not kirkus prize i. i said, where is this country going? mean this doesn't make any sense to me. well, speaking of which, should drag queen. i'm reading hours be banned in your view from public libraries. i don't think should be banned but. i think parents have a right the decision if they want to bring their kids to that. you know, from my point of view, i honestly don't understand it and i don't know why it's become a thing. but drag queens, we think reading in these libraries. but i'm a live and live kind of guy. i don't tell people how they should live lives. i'm just tired of so many people in the press and the media and movies and television telling me how i'm supposed to live my life. you know, i've worked around gay people all my life in hollywood, 40 years. you're not going to find one out there that says, i was horrible to them because i'm not. i treat the same and everybody equally. and to it's like, let's let's make a movie together in same industry. let's have a good time. so i don't like i said, i don't harbor that sort of ang

it was a new york times editors choice indie next pick and among real some among real simple and kirkus best books of 2023. her writing has appeared in new york magazine, oprah daily, and the new york times. and she lives in amagansett. sure. and we can sit and nashville, which is right here. yes. thank so much, lydia. thank you for being lynn. i'm really excited to be up here with both of you. so, yes, this is my memoir everything. nothing. someone. and in it i tell the story of. being the daughter of two profoundly self-destructive, self-absorbed artists who lived in alternate where the power of their minds could shape reality. my mother was a world renowned painter whose implanted false memories of ritualized sexual abuse murder made her hide in her and kept her hidden from closeness with people. my father was a european film star who treated parenthood, a radical philosopher experiment in the total annihilation of boundaries. i was flooded by the torrential force of their complicated desires, deficits, and i became everything. and when i reached adolescence, a dissociated disorder w