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Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered with a convincing sense of nosiness. An exceedingly inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she realized about imitate details of their lives. This ability for nosiness, in conjunction with her unusual insufficient the very English fear of sociable shame, is the perfect mixture for a celebrity interviewer. Barber calls for us through her early on job at Penthouse where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies, through her later more eminent career at the Telegraph, Sunday Express, Vanity Fair, Observer and Sunday Times. Barber has interviewed an enormous cross-section of stars throughout her job; politicians, film personalities, comedians, dancers and musicians, including Gore Vidal, Rudolph Nureyev, Girl Gaga, Wayne Stewart and Dirk Bogarde to name but a few. Characterised by her witty and honest style, An Interviewing Life is full of glorious anecdotes including the interview with Salvador Dali that was only likely to last one day and ended up running into four at Dali's invitation, culminating in him gifting her a conical hat made of wax that he previously originally suitable for his partner to wear to fancy dress outfits ball in the 1930s. Filled with transcripts of interview highlights, such as her infamous interview with the amusing and spectacularly rude 'ratty old rock chick' Marianne Faithfull, and the interview with Rafael Nadal which infuriated his supporters a lot Barber noticed her Twitter followers double so that his supporters were able to misuse her online. Not merely is An Interviewing Life a fascinating window in to the lives of those has she interviewed, but also in to the world of journalism itself and into Lynn Barber's own life.
