sortabiography

Just shy of three months ago (November 10th) George Carlin's "sortabiography" Last Words was published.

Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television 2010

Just shy of three months ago (November 10th) George Carlin's "sortabiography" Last Words was published.

George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television Tony Hendra 2010

His new idea was to use childhood stuff from the book as a basis for the Broadway show; then when it opened, finally publish the sortabiography itself.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

As things turned out, we never did regroup. 9/11 intervened, causing George major headaches for his HBO show and adding a darkly comic episode to the sortabiography.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

Partly because she had figured fairly prominently in the sortabiography, partly because of the yearlong depression he went through in the aftermath, we put it aside for a while.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

So a few years in, with a book emerging that was part biography, part autobiography, we hit on our genre: it was George’s sortabiography.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

The experience put the sortabiography back front and center and we began discussing doing it as George’s next book.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

It was a public version of the free-ranging conversations we’d had about the sortabiography, which would often take us to completely unexpected places.

Last Words George Carlin 2009