![]() Whatever you call Yes Please it’s meant for those people who, upon hearing Poehler’s name, exclaim, “Oh, I love her!” ![]() It’s hard to imagine anyone making sense of parts of it, let alone wanting to read the whole thing, if they aren’t already familiar with Poehler’s work in film, TV and improv comedy. It’s not a coherent, well-knit piece of writing organised around a central narrative or argument. However, it’s the type of title the publishing business sometimes refers to as a “non-book”, meaning that it has few of the qualities bookish people like to think of as exemplifying the form. ![]() Yes Please arrives on printed pages sandwiched between cardboard covers and is currently lodged in the No 2 spot of the New York Times bestsellers list, so technically, yes: it is a book. But, as gruelling as it is to write a book, it’s still not entirely clear that is what Poehler has done. Grumbling about writing is the main form of exercise engaged in by many authors (hey, it does get the pulse up). “The truth is, writing is hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.” Her latter point is true the former, not so much. “Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written,” she writes. ![]() C omedian and actor Amy Poehler spends several pages of her new book complaining about how difficult it is to write a book. ![]()
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