Keith McNally’s memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, is driven by his dislikes, as so many good books are ... His book lives up to this credo, in a manner that gives it more soulfulness and more bottom, as the Brits like to call gravitas, than (let’s say) Graydon Carter’s recent memoir.
Rueful, self-aware, chatty, entertaining, dazzling, and harrowing: a book that contains multitudes ... McNally is a charming and honest raconteur who’s lived an impossibly broad-ranging life.
McNally writes vividly of his formative years ... Throughout, McNally makes good on his reputation for unvarnished, sometimes-controversial commentary—at one point, he comes to Woody Allen’s defense—but the intimacy this approach generates makes it more of a feature than a bug. It adds up to an intriguing portrait of a complex personality.
