The most successful autobiographies demand a certain amount of psychic heavy lifting, risk taking, and interrogation of one's ideas Fey will have none of it, which contributes to the nagging feeling that, despite her prodigious talents, she can be a little too clever by half. Edging up to difficult truths and skipping away may make for sophisticated sitcoms, but it doesn't make for satisfying memoir writing. Fey treats Bossypants as an extension of her television alter ego.
As Liz Lemon herself would say, "I want to go to there."Ĭover jacket for 'Bossypants' by Tina FeyĮxcept there isn't much "there" to be had. From there we follow our plucky heroine as she goes from a summer theater program to a preppy Southern university, and then to Chicago, where she performs with the fabled Second City company and scores a job as a writer on Saturday Night Live. This tension between her comedy and her actual beliefs is on full display in her latest effort, the memoir Bossypants, which purports to be a book "about how she got here." The only daughter of a solidly middle-class family from suburban Philadelphia, Fey begins her tale in typical self-deprecating fashion, relating amusing anecdotes about body-hair removal, first periods ("nowhere in the pamphlet did anyone say it wasn't a blue liquid"), and run-ins with specula (she fainted). She is, as a character, not only the most famous working woman on television but a role model to many as she navigates the Sturm und Drang of singlehood, corporate intrigue, and irresistible food.
Tina Fey occupies a special place in the contemporary American cultural imagination: it's hard to know where her characters end and she begins.
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