I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are….

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend..

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet..

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents..