That is because telling the truth is her driving force. It comes naturally to her. You can see this in her novels, The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess a wrenching personal story, The Viagra Diaries (don’t even ask!) and her latest, Love, Sometimes: A Novel About Risk, Hollywood and Controversial Love , a more than a kiss and tell story filled with more truth telling, this time about getting The Viagra Diaries into a television show, such an irritating journey told in Barbara’s right-to-the-point language. Shocking, really, what the television executives kept doing. Best to hear it in her own voice.
She couldn’t mince words to safe her life. Thank heaven for that because you can count on her for candor.
And, yes, there is romance or the hope of it all the way through her novels. And her paintings. And her life. On the topic of risk, Barbara seems not to fear it all or ever. Her own life story as the outrageously beautiful daughter of a well to do family (perhaps TMI, but I knew her when she was 21, so I know she was an outrageous beauty) takes her from a female subjugated to a female in charge as she is now. She is, by the way, the founder of the Age March, an organization whose goal is to end age discrimination. You may want to hear Barbara with her first Love Letters Live episode of some time ago before you hear this latest one. There is, as Barbara will tell you, no age too old to find intimacy and love.
