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When is a memoir not a memoir? For boundary-pushing theater director and My Dinner with Andre actor Gregory, the question is a sort of thesis, a musing on the tensions—between life and work, reality and falsehood, life and death—that consume avant-garde artists. Born into a dysfunctional family of wealthy Jewish émigrés fleeing Europe during the 1930s, Gregory recounts his early life as a spectacular swirl of tragedy and privilege, o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More