I have a confession to make: I picked up Jane Lynch's memoir, Happy Accidents, as soon as it hit bookstore shelves yesterday with the intention of scanning "the gay parts" to write an AfterEllen-specific review for today — but once I opened it up, I read every single word, from cover to cover, in one happily accidental sitting.
It's a memoir-eat-memoir world out there. Every day, a celebrity or politician (or a washed-up variation thereof) releases a tell-all biography. But engaging stories of lives well lived are a lot harder to come by. Lynch, however, starts at the beginning — the moment she was "born with an extra helping of angst" — and works all the way through to her 2010 Golden Globe win — "Please don't say Jane Lynch, please don't say Jane Lynch. But when they said 'Jane Lynch,' I thought, You're damn right, Jane Lynch!" — with such candor and...
It's a memoir-eat-memoir world out there. Every day, a celebrity or politician (or a washed-up variation thereof) releases a tell-all biography. But engaging stories of lives well lived are a lot harder to come by. Lynch, however, starts at the beginning — the moment she was "born with an extra helping of angst" — and works all the way through to her 2010 Golden Globe win — "Please don't say Jane Lynch, please don't say Jane Lynch. But when they said 'Jane Lynch,' I thought, You're damn right, Jane Lynch!" — with such candor and...
- 9/14/2011
- by Heather Hogan
- AfterEllen.com
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