Word: wurtzel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s very ironic as the audience for books has gotten more rarefied, and all these people complain that not enough people read, it should make people happy when a book or an author is accessible,” Wurtzel says when asked about the criticisms of her work. “But instead, it makes them nervous, and it makes them feel like there’s some reason not to take it seriously...
...anybody really care about Thom Yorke’s personality? I don’t think so. But everybody cares about Courtney Love’s personality, and Hole sells records. It doesn’t have to be any one way.” (Notably, Entertainment Weekly called Wurtzel “the Courtney Love of letters,” referring perhaps to their shared ability to interest the world in their cycles of audacity and crisis...
...Wurtzel is still moving in, so the apartment carries that quality of frenzied transition, laden with piles of books and records. Wurtzel offers to show me a draft for the trailer of Prozac Nation. It blinks on, dreamy and wordless, drifting on the sound of Lou Reed singing “Perfect...
...It’s very eerie,” says Wurtzel, standing back to watch Christina Ricci looking lost and haunted. “She looks just like me back then.” Though there’s little apparent physical resemblance, there is something surprisingly similar, a wild-eyed quality mingled with composure...
...Wurtzel only has praise for the performances of the actors, which, in addition to Ricci and Lange, include such youthful stars as Jason Biggs, Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Michelle Williams...