If someone met you after reading your book, do you think they would know what you’re really like? I do, yeah, but I also think that I’m constantly evolving and changing as a person. Obviously your writing is very personally revealing, do you think this book is an accurate portrayal of your personality? Ideally I would love it if it were the new Go Ask Alice or something. If people our age, in their 20s and 30s, read it and they get into it, that’s awesome, but while I was writing it and reading all my old diaries, I really went back to that place and that age. It was more like, “What would I like to read if I was 15? Would I be into this?“ It’s kind of a little X-rated for younger girls, which is why I think that they might like it. In your own book there are sections explicitly directed towards teenage girls, but Dear Diary isn’t obviously a book for young people-is that who your intended readers are? Are you hoping they’ll eventually discover it?įor me, whenever I was writing and whenever I was in the moment and I forced myself to picture an audience, that’s who I pictured. You’ve made references in Dear Diary and in your previous writing about touchstone books for teenage girls that maybe aren’t actually intended for teenage girls, like Flowers in the Attic or The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. I could tell by his voice that he was still hot, but I was running low on care juice while he seemed to be drunk on the stuff." But we laughed at her observations a lot too, particularly at sections like this: "I called up Brad and remembered immediately why we weren't soul mates.
For the book, the 28-year-old writer also talked to important figures from her life (many of whom she hadn't been in touch with for years) to get their take on how things happened.Īfter reading her column for five years we had pieced together a loose personal history for Arfin (popular in junior high, outcast in junior high, bad kid with friends, into hardcore, into raves and special K, at Hampshire, addicted to heroin, living in New York City, in recovery from heroin addiction), but when reading it all laid out in chronological order and filled with even more difficult details, her stories often hurt our heart. In Dear Diary, Arfin reprints her own diary entries from 6th grade up until she was 25, then comments on them with the added perspective of age, and, in many cases, the truth. Lesley Arfin has turned her engrossing "Dear Diary" column for Vice into an engrossinger book called Dear Diary that comes out this week.
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