A review by hpuphd
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie by Carly Simon

5.0

This is a book that uses the word stretch more than once, not as a verb meaning to extend the bodily limbs but as a noun for luxury transportation (“We were waiting for a white stretch”). Carly Simon’s writing is as distinctive as her songs and her singing voice. About her persnickety side: “For the first time, I noticed how absurdly paranoid I was about the sexual history of the hotel bedspreads and throw pillows that remain on the bows and sterns of beds, unlaundered, for months on end, a sexual guest book signed by countless Debbies, Pauls, Judys, and Scotts.” Her friendship with Jackie is interesting to read about, to be sure, but the star of this memoir has to be Carly’s serene and copacetic writing.