Show Notes
Why the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of history’s purest founders.
Written by Blake J. Harris
Read by Scott Brick
Read ‘The Many Failures of Larry David’ here.
Selected material from this article appears in the book EMPEROR OF NOTHING: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris. Copyright © 2026 by Blake J. Harris. To be published on October 20, 2026, by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission.
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