Lisa Brennan-Jobs writes memoir about Steve Jobs


The New York Times as a profile on Lisa Brennan-Job who has a new book called "Small Fry." The book is a memoir of her father Steve Jobs.

On the Walter Isaacson book and impetus of her own book:


"I never spoke with Walter, and I never read the book, but I know I came off as cold to my father and not caring whether he felt bad," Ms. Brennan-Jobs said in late July, sitting in Cantine, a small, vegan-friendly cafe in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood. "I was devastated by it."

â€"I felt ashamed to be the bad part of a great story,” she continued. â€"And I felt unresolved.”

And so in â€"Small Fry,” she seeks to resolve some of that shame by describing how her childhood unfolded, who key characters were, why it all happened. Ms. Brennan-Jobs went back to Silicon Valley and interviewed her family, her friends, her mother’s ex-boyfriends, and her father’s ex-girlfriend...