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The Journal Keeper
Paperback, 281 pages, Pgw, List Price: $14.95 | purchase
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This book is about:
- Theroux, Phyllis,
- Diaries,
- Authors, American,
- 20th century,
- 21st century
NPR stories about The Journal Keeper
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Phyllis Theroux may be the biggest overthinker of them all — and that's saying a lot among this neurotic bunch. The author (who is also, oddly enough, Jennifer Aniston's possible future mother-in-law) has written a memoir called The Journal Keeper that's everything we're told a memoir shouldn't be — rambling, self-indulgent and only loosely chronological. Luckily, Theroux has plenty of courage in her convictions, revealing a rich inner life that might never be as colorfully... more
—Heather Havrilesky
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