Parker Posey is delightfully weird. But you probably knew that. “They don’t know what to do with me out here,” she tells us in her new memoir, You’re On an Airplane. We don’t know what to make of her either. And that’s exactly the appeal.

Like the actress herself, the book is nothing like your standard celebrity fare. What gossipy revelations the book does dish up deal with the idiosyncrasies and small charms of celebrities and personae she’s known and worked with, from Nora Ephron and Shirley MacLaine to Joaquin Phoenix and Liev Schreiber. They’re the sort of details a lesser storyteller would cut, but Posey’s different. She has the Indie eye.