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Reviewer Katie Walsh called the film “a fascinating look at the self-invented André Leon Talley, a bold, daring creation who never let anything obstruct his passions, curiosities and whims.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2022

For the next 500-plus pages, Rosenberg attempts to recreate the movie through a variety of self-invented memory techniques and hypnotherapy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2020

Audrey Hepburn flits across the screen as Holly Golightly, Truman Capote’s self-invented, self-professed “wild thing,” in this Blake Edwards classic.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2016

The godfathers of gangsta, NWA talked about “reality rap”; Drake’s self-invented genre is unreality rap, or perhaps hyper-reality rap.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2016

Harry had already attempted a few of the Prince’s self-invented spells.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling