The pleasures of a nicely turned review phrase in a new Frank Gehry bio

Longtime architecture critic Paul Goldberger has tackled the art of biography, and one reviewers finds the two hats jockeying for position explaining the life and work of Frank Gehry:

The first-person Goldberger continues to show up every once in a while, but only in the footnotes. This produces the odd sense that Goldberger the critic is banging on a wall laid down at the bottom of each footnoted page by Goldberger the biographer, trying futilely to be let back into a book he was briefly allowed to control.

We're hoping Goldberger explains how the Experience Music Project, Gehry's vanity project for billionaire Paul Allen, has also become the orphan building in most reviews of the architect's work.