You love doing it and you'll do it again, when you get out of jail, I know. JENNIFER BYRNE: Cos I think some of the best books and big stories of our time never get off the financial pages. She graduated from Hampshire College and immediately started an internship at Vice magazine, where she then went on to write a number of articles, as well as her own column, 'Dear Diary.' In 2007 her book, Dear Diary, based on the column, was published by Vice Books/MTV Press. MARIEKE HARDY: Why do you do that to yourself? Lesley Arfin has been writing professionally since 2001. And soon after that, we hear about the hookers, the girl, the wife I can't even begin to tell you about, the drugs, the snag, the absolute complete outrageousness of his life. It starts as he's quaaluded out, he's in his own Bell JetRanger and he's bringing it down to crash. Well, he ain't no Tom Wolfe and it is a male fantasy. He was inspired, as I understand, by Tom Wolfe. He is a complete and utter prat of the first order. I, in my continuing investigation of the idiots of the high financial world, The Wolf of Wall Street. She's had a very dark and dangerous life, but it's a fantastic idea with the self-consciousness of pubescence and looking back at it with hindsight, it's very good. She's actually printed her old diaries from when she was a teenager, but revisited all the people in it and called some up and talked to them about the incidents that happened, tells you where they are now, transcribes the phone calls. It's a good read, but I bought it, cos I'm quite jealous that someone else has stolen this as an idea. Lesley Arfin kept a diary during the apocalypse that was her adolescence, chronicling her depression from. MARIEKE HARDY: I bought this book, which is called Dear Diary, by Lesley Arfin, and done up like a diary. Buy Dear Diary by Lesley Arfin at Mighty Ape NZ. Following a remarkable run in its singular hardcover format (over 20,000 copies in print after two printings) and having captured a devoted fan base that continues to grow, Dear Diary arrives in trade paperback. In this book with Diary pages that have dirty secrets that come funny and clever talk about Lesleys life story and everything she likes and does in her teen. This is a really, really fine collection with some terrific poems, many ideas and some very personal poems looking back to his childhood in Brisbane and his family. Peter Porter, Australian poet, lived in England for about the past 50 years, he's just turned 80. as well as her own column, Dear Diary, which was turned into a book in 2007.Lesley is the Editor-In-Chief of Missbehave magazine and currently works. JASON STEGER: I read Peter Porter's latest collection of poetry, Better Than God. Broadcast: Tuesday, 1 September 2009 on ABC1
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