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Other chroniclers, film-makers and diarists struggled to convey in words and pictures the scenes that made unwanted incursions into their minds.

"Previously it would have been a publicist whispering to a diarist of a national newspaper. The issue with digital media is it's anonymous and untraceable."

Everyone’s favorite analog diarist is smack dab in the middle of a universe ruled by tech.

On The Tortured Poets Department, she blurs the lines between her personas - writing both as diarist and fantasist, sometimes within the same song.

My other lucky break was that Stimson, the war secretary, was an avid diarist.