On Herzog's Memoirs

The audiobook of Werner Herzog’s new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023), is 13 hours, 42 minutes, and 41 seconds long. The listener might be pleased, as I was, to hear the filmmaker personally narrate it, milking every word like a Bavarian cow—a rustic practicality the great man notably knows how to do. With Herzog, anything seems possible, and the low becomes high, the high low.