"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable," Carrie Fisher, who died yesterday, at the age of sixty, wrote in her memoir "Wishful Drinking," from 2008. Fisher's life, which ended far too soon, was one of rare and unbelievable circumstances, and thank goodness she had the wit and the chutzpah to tell us all about it"as if she were observing herself from a ten-foot remove, and as if we wer…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:42PM on December 28, 2016