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Theroux the keyhole, Louis Theroux

eng

contains biographical information

illustrationsportraits

no index present

non fiction

Theroux the keyhole

Louis Theroux

Like millions of others, Louis's plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic. This book is a diary of the weirdness of family life in Covid World. A wife intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wick's daily workouts. Two teenage sons, inseparable from their video games, to whom he is increasingly 'cringe'. A five-year-old happily spamming out videos on his own new TikTok account while on holiday with his oblivious family. Louis also describes launching Grounded, finally gets to the US to film a new Joe Exotic documentary and aims his sighs on the latest incarnation of the far right in a world becoming radicalized by social media. Theroux the keyhole is Louis at his insightful best, as he faces unforseen new challenges and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him

Theroux The keyhole, diaries of a grounded documentary maker