Ash Carter is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Esquire, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, and the New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
Sam Kashner is an editor-at-large at Air Mail and was for many years a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. He is the author of Sinatraland (a "notable book" of both the Washington Post and the L.A. Times) and the acclaimed memoir When I Was Cool: My Life At the Jack Kerouac School and coauthor of the recent New York Times bestsellers The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee and Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century.
"Some of the best writing about Hollywood." --John Simon, The New
York Times "Manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated
polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life...It
is properly celebratory and deliciously filled with his bons mots,
but from its opening pages, it shirks none of the complexity of the
man, acknowledging the darkness so close to the shining surface...
The breadth of the witnesses is remarkable, as are their candor and
perceptiveness." --Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books A
People magazine "Book of the Week" "A fascinating oral history of
Nichols's career. . . . [Kashner and Carter] have intelligently
chosen to concentrate on the career rather than the life, and on
Nichols's working methods and artistic techniques. Most of the 150
voices . . . speak eloquently both of the enormous intelligence
Nichols brought to almost every project he was involved in and of
the deep respect he accorded his collaborators." --Brooke Allen,
Wall Street Journal
"Captivating... what stands out in the memories of Nichols' many
colleagues is his ability to guide actors." --Associated Press
"What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50
years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind
one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most
charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them
ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson
"Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind
of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike
Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious,
insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow "For those
of you who were denied the exquisite pleasure of knowing Mike
Nichols, it's not too late to make his very special acquaintance.
Life Isn't Everything allows this once in a generation personality
to sparkle anew. I was entertained, provoked, reminded of just
exactly why a great man was great." --John Patrick Shanley "One of
the f#@%ing illest books ever." --Jonah Hill "The Irish wake of
your dreams." --Broadway Direct "Legendary director Mike Nichols
(1931-2014) refused to write his memoirs, but this scintillating
oral history fills the gap splendidly, with wry and heartfelt
commentary by "150 of his closest friends," from Richard Burton,
Elizabeth Taylor, and Meryl Streep through Candice Bergen and
Christine Baranski, all of whom cherished their professional and
personal relationships with a man who seemingly impressed everyone
he met as being the smartest and most charming person in the room."
--Booklist starred review "[A] candid, intimate portrayal of a man
they loved and admired.... A warmhearted, revelatory composite
portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "It turns out an oral history is ... the
best way to tell the fascinating story of Nichols... The quotes are
carefully arranged to deliver a narrative... that makes each
successive fact more shocking." --Joel Stein, Town & Country, Best
Biographies of the Year "Deep, in-the-pocket theater devotees . . .
are going to feast on this brilliant and terrific oral history of
the life and times of the singular Mike Nichols." --Buffalo News
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