How the memory of parental advice sparked the critic to write a memoir in the form of letters to neighbours, relatives, teachers, friends and colleagues Call me Logan. As in Succession 's Logan Roy. I've become a Monster: all I want to do is to talk about myself. Of course, at some level all any of us ever wants is to talk about ourselves, but that inflexible sheet of psychological perspex – politeness – keeps us in check. Not Logan Roy, obviously, but the rest of us minor mortals. Me. Until now.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/may/helen-elliott/no-one-ordinary

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