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Larry David Participated in a Biography. Does He Regret It?

Emperor of Nothing, published by Dey Street Books, draws on more than five years of access to David; reviewers say it needed a firmer edit.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLarry David took part in the first authorized biography of his life, and Variety asks whether he regrets it.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive hundred seventy-six pages. If it's nothing, it's the most thoroughly bound nothing I've ever seen.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAuthor Blake J. Harris started it during the pandemic. He calls himself a Larry David historian.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA historian. Of a man who put it in writing that there's no interest in him. That's a very short archive.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe did write that, in an email to Harris in August twenty twenty.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRolling Stone reports he said there are far better ways to spend your time.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd Harris spent five years on it anyway.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMore than five years of access and interviews. Rolling Stone says David gave in with the words, Oh Jesus.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI've never seen Seinfeld, you know. I've heard it's about nothing, and I assumed that was a warning.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReviews quoted by Book Marks say it could have used a stern edit. One says it skips his romantic history.

  11. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive years of access, and the man who said there was nothing to write about got every page of it.

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