Cazzie David Has Regrets About Her New Book
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In 'Delusions: of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress,' the author and filmmaker points her pen at the people and places that have been causing her anguish lately. She just didn't think about what would happen when they read it.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment This isn’t Cazzie David’s first time releasing a deeply personal work to the public. In 2020, she published No One Asked for This , in which she wrote candidly about her struggles with panic attacks and her breakup with Pete Davidson. She also co-wrote and directed an indie film about toxic relationships, I Love You Forever (2024). And yet, true to form, neither of those experiences has helped to soften the blow of releasing another book. “I’ve been struggling to find ways to talk about it,” she says of Delusions: of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress , which muses on turning 30 and all the existential crises therein. “It’s hard to describe a book of essays. This is so harrowing. If someone doesn’t like this book, it’s not just them saying they don’t like my writing. It’s ‘I don’t like your personality.'” Related Stories The AI Issue A New AI Scam Is Targeting Thousands of Authors. I Was One of Them. Lifestyle Disney Adds Official Winnie the Pooh Cookbook to Lineup of 100th Anniversary Collectibles David, now 31, is also grappling with the realization that her book may very well find an audience — an audience who will read stories about her life that she wrote without fully considering the fact that they would go public. “When the time comes to turn the manuscript in you’re like wait, I haven’t decided if all this is going to be in the book! But I think that about everything in the book, so they take the whole thing. They basically kidnapped this from me and I have no choice.” Some of the essays are benign and well-documented; tales of her own neuroses, and her obsessions with the health of her father, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David. Others are more pointed; her recounting of an attempt to make a new friend and the dis...
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