You're On an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful handmade collages created by the author herself, You're On an Airplane is a delight in every way.
In her first book, actress and star of movies such as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, You've Got Mail, The House of Yes, and so many more, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and the realities of its accompanying fame. A funny and colorful southern childhood prepared Posey for a life of creating and entertaining, which not only extends to acting but to the craft of pottery, sewing, collage, yoga, and cooking, all of which readers will find in this whimsical, hilarious, always entertaining book. Parker takes us into her childhood home, behind the scenes of the indie film revolution in the 90s, the delightful absurdity of the big-budget genre thrillers she's turned into art in a whole new way, and the creativity that will always be part of both her acting and her personal life.
With Posey's memorable, hilarious, and poignant voice, her book gives the listener a feeling of traveling through not only a memoir, but an exploration, meditation, and celebration of what it means to be an artist. Buckle up and enjoy the journey.
Editor's Note
The reader is the co-star…
This charming, free-spirited book reads like the indie film darling is chatting with you on a flight about everything from cocktail recipes to hilarious inside stories from her movie sets.
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Reviews for You're On an Airplane
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oh Parker Posey, you frantically brilliantly insane woman! Thankfully not another norm of a standardised tale of a biography broken down into banalities but a lyrical and gesturally humorous (you hear her moving, breathing, mocking her own in-poor-taste-jokes and sometimes letting them slide un-mocked which makes her even more lovable) recount of stories from her life. I am happy I didn't read it - I think really it should only exist as an audiobook - since it only really comes to its right in Parkers voice. The low down murmurs and dull genuine sorrows voiced and high pitched violently happy sarcastically dead-pan blows to the self and surroundings that is and is within the bisarre idiocracy of show business. I liked her before and was always fascinated by balancing act between the absurd and brilliant but she's tipped the scale and I am, rarely so, a fan!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parker Posey is witty and her writing style is, for lack of a better word, fluent.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5nonfiction/memoir
Parker Posey pretends to sit beside you on an airplane and talk your ear off about various things she's done and famous people she's rubbed elbows with. She's nice enough, but it's not the most compelling memoir I've read this year. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Parker Posey, once known as the "queen of independent movies," has starred in many movies that I enjoy. Party Girl, for one, played a not insubstantial part in my choice of career. In this unconventional memoir, Posey addresses the reader directly as if one is sitting next to her on an airplane (and in the audiobook, this comes complete with the sound effects of the airplane taking off and a flight attendant serving drinks). After the first chapter, this affectation of writing in second person only pops up from time to time, but nevertheless, this is a stream-of-conscious memoir. Posey tells stories of her Catholic, Southern gothic childhood in a family of "characters" and her experiences on the sets of various films, including her work with directors like Richard Linklater and Christopher Guest. She also writes extensively about working with Woody Allen (and humorously impersonates his voice). While many actors have justified working with Allen, and its understandable that an independent actor would want to work with a notably independent director, I found it deeply unsettling that Posey doesn't even address that Allen is an accused child rapist. In other chapters, Posey goes into deep detail about her yoga practice, her work with ceramics, and her dog. It's clear that this book is meant to show that Posey is as quirky and funny as her movie characters, but sometimes its hard to tell if the self-absorption in these chapter is parody or for real.Favorite Passages:It’s an industry (an art, hopefully) full of orphans left to create their own worlds with one another. I don’t feel glamorous, I feel like a possum—the animal born clinging to its mother’s tail, that grows up by falling off it, and probably too soon. Acting is the possum’s defense.