I’ve never kept a diary. But if I had, I’d want it destroyed when I die
From Samuel Pepys to Joan Didion, many literary greats wrote for no one but themselves – then found posterity pawing through their secrets. Trust me: you don’t want to know my innermost thoughts A few years ago, a friend asked me to be her “literary executor”. We were both, I think, tickled by the grandiose … Read more