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Miss May Does Not Exist

Carrie Courogen

Genre
Nonfiction
Format
Hardcover
Pages
400
Started Reading
Feb 16, 2025
Finished Reading
Mar 06, 2025

I was introduced to Elaine May’s films by the clerks at my local video store, Viva Video.1 They had a copy of The Heartbreak Kid but also put me on to films like Reds where she was an uncredited co-writer. Since then she has become a figure of some fascination to me, and this biography finally gave me a fuller picture of her career and work—a feat given May’s famously slippery avoidance of press and personal mythmaking.


  1. Since closed, tragically. ↩︎