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Seven Books to Look Forward to in 2021

January 25, 2021January 28, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Crying in H Mart, Daniel Loedel, Elemental, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Martha Waters, Melissa Broder, Michelle Zauner, Milk Fed, Patricia Lockwood, To Love and To Loathe

Serious, sad edition

McConaughey

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The Wisdom of Matthew McConaughey

December 7, 2020January 12, 2021 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

A frank and friendly memoir from a working-class kid who hit the jackpot

In Cold Blood

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Growing Up in the Shadow of ‘In Cold Blood’

December 1, 2020December 11, 2020 Heather Crist Paley 8 Comments Herb Clutter, In Cold Blood, Nancy Clutter, the Clutter Family, Truman Capote

The Clutters were our neighbors, and my family’s friends

Cazzie David

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Twitter Tries to Curb Cazzie David

November 19, 2020December 24, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Cazzie David, Larry David, No One Asked For This, Pete Davidson

Larry David’s daughter’s memoir is bad, but not all bad

Mark Lanegan

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Mark Lanegan’s Beautifully Sad Memoir of Drugs and Despair

September 3, 2020September 16, 2020 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Alice in Chains, Bruce Pavitt, Courtney Love, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Jerry Cantrell, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Lee Connor, Liam Gallagher, memoir, Screaming Trees, Sing Backwards and Weep, Sub Pop, The Gun Club, Van Connor, Vocalist Mark Lanegan

Screaming Trees vocalist sings a powerful story

Rockers

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‘Rockers’ Book Brings to Life the Making of the Legendary Reggae Film

August 27, 2020August 28, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Dillinger, Grace Jones, Jessica Lange, King Tubby, Rockers, Ted Bafaloukos

The golden age of rude boys, from Jamaica to New York and beyond

Sonnenfeld

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Barry Sonnenfeld: the Most Neurotic Man in Hollywood

August 3, 2020August 5, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Barry Sonnenfeld, Blood Simple, Coen Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Will Smith

Memoir doesn’t tell all, but reveals a lot

Bakari Sellers

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The Vanishing Country of Bakari Sellers

June 11, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Bakari Sellers, Barack Obama, Harriet Wilson, Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates

An urgent memoir, a call to action

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Woody Allen’s Brilliant New Memoir is Actually Two Different Books

June 4, 2020February 23, 2021 Ken Kurson 7 Comments Alan Dershowitz, Alec Baldwin, Apropos Of Nothing, Diane Keaton, Greta Gerwig, Mia Farrow, Mira Sorvino, New York Times, Nick Apollo Forte, Ronan Farrow, Scarlett Johansson, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

A witty, self-deprecating showbiz reminiscence and a detailed, persuasive self-defense

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A Reading List of Books By Black Authors

June 3, 2020June 12, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Alice Randall, Bethany C. Morrow, Cadwell Turnbull, Ebony Flowers, Hanif Abdurraqib, Hot Comb, How To Exterminate The Black Woman, Jabari Asim, MEM, Monica Prince, Nella Larsen, Passing, Riot Baby, Sarah M. Broom, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, The Lesson, The Wind Done Gone, The Yellow House, Tochi Onyebuchi, We Can’t Breathe

I can read. It’s better than doing nothing.

Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit Doesn’t Explain Herself

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence

In a new memoir, she hides behind the veil

Woody Allen

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The Woman Who Published Woody Allen’s New Memoir

March 24, 2020April 10, 2020 Neal Pollack 7 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Arcade Publishing, Jeanette Seaver, Woody Allen

An interview with Jeanette Seaver of Arcade Publishing

Celebrity Memoir

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Celebrity Memoir Books to Read Instead of Woody Allen’s

March 23, 2020March 24, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alicia Keys, Anthony Bourdain, Caroline Calloway, Colin Jost, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Jessica Simpson, Lili Reinhart, Madeline Albright, Neil Strauss, Steve Madden, The Jonas Brothers, Tori Amos, Val Kilmer

Life for the rich and famous before Coronavirus

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Writers React to the Death of Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel from Cancer at Age 52

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 Ken Kurson 0 Comments BRCA gene, breast cancer, depression, double mastectomy, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Fight House: Rivalries in the White House, Jim Freed, Joe Biden, John Podhoretz, Julian Castro, Lisa DePaulo, Los Angeles Magazine, Maer Roshan, mikal gilmore, Now Again, Prozac Nation, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Susan Shapiro, Tevi Troy, The Byline Bible

‘Prozac Nation’ helped birth a wave of self-examination

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To Dish or Not to Dish?

October 22, 2019October 23, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Deirdre Bair, Parisian Lives, Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir

‘Parisian Lives,’ a Juicy Memoir by Beckett’s Biographer

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