‘There’s nothing interesting about me – and no interest in me’: how Larry David’s new biography nearly didn’t happen
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Key context: <p>He point-blank refused, begged the author not to talk to people who knew him … and eventually relented. Making the first authorised biography of the Seinfeld and Curb creator was no mean feat</p><p>Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David might be the most begrudgingly authorised biography ever written. The story of how author Blake J Harris convinced the comedy titan to “tolerate” him begins, of all places, at Fox News.</p><p>It was 2020 and Harris’s second book, The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality, had been published the previous year. Palmer Luckey, the Oculus founder, was “fired for being a Trump supporter” and Harris, anything but a Trump fan, simply reported the facts. Speaking on the phone from his home in Colorado, he explains: “My book ended up doing well because I was all over rightwing media, as they loved having me on. I was the liberal journalist who exposed the truth about how conservatives were treated in Silicon Valley.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/25/theres-nothing-interesting-about-me-and-no-interest-in-me-how-larry-davids-new-biography-nearly-didnt-happen">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
He point-blank refused, begged the author not to talk to people who knew him … and eventually relented. Making the first authorised biography of the Seinfeld and Curb creator was no mean featEmperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David might be the most begrudgingly authorised biography ever written. The story of how author Blake J Harris convinced the comedy titan to “tolerate” him begins, of all places, at Fox News.It was 2020 and Harris’s second book, The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality, had been published the previous year. Palmer Luckey, the Oculus founder, was “fired for being a Trump supporter” and Harris, anything but a Trump fan, simply reported the facts. Speaking on the phone from his home in Colorado, he explains: “My book ended up doing well because I was all over rightwing media, as they loved having me on. I was the liberal journalist who exposed the truth about how conservatives were treated in Silicon Valley.” Continue reading...
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