Dear diary, how did you become part of our literary culture?
A first-person narrative that keeps the narrator in suspense … Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones is part of a rich tradition. Photograph: Working Title/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Diaries: you get one as a Christmas present, start writing it, and continue for, oh, a few days more or less than you go to the gym for the new year. … [Read more…]