Marilyn the Poet

I haven't read anything by her, but the line "best finest surgeon, come cut me open" from the chorus of Surgeon by St Vincent comes from this book, and I think it's great (the music helps).

> Arthur Miller's dull

This is more a reflection on the author than Miller. I didn't find his discussion of art and politics from the Depression to McCarthy dull, it illuminated some thinking from the period.

> self-serving memoir

This is tautological

I guess it's well that somebody has stepped up to speak for her, now that Norman Mailer's gone. But the weight of testimony seems to be on the other side.