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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, 2020June 24, 2020 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.

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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

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The Woman Who Published Woody Allen’s New Memoir

March 24, 2020April 10, 2020 Neal Pollack 6 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Arcade Publishing, Jeanette Seaver, Woody Allen

An interview with Jeanette Seaver of Arcade Publishing

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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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On the Road with Patti Smith

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Erika Schickel 0 Comments Because the Night, National Book Award, Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, Year of the Monkey

‘Year Of The Monkey,’ a Hallucinatory Memoir of a Rockstar Poet’s 69th Year

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Red Lake County is the Place to Be

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now, Washington Post

In ”If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now,’ A Blue Check Mark Moves to Red America

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Traveling Heavy

August 5, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Travel Light Move Fast

Alexandra Fuller Explores Family In New Memoir

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Rick Moody’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Year

August 1, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Rick Moody, The Long Accomplishment

‘The Long Accomplishment’: An Eye-Popping, Cathartic Read

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Doctor Love

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Ayaz Virji, Christian, Christianity, Islam, Love Thy Neighbor, Muslim

In ‘Love Thy Neighbor’, a Muslim Physician Adapts to Rural America

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Howard Stern is Listening

June 12, 2019 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Bill O'Reilly, Chris Rock, Courtney Love, Donald Trump, Ed Sheeran, Harvey Weinstein, Howard Stern, Howard Stern Comes Again, Jay-Z, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Bon Jovi, Rosie O'Donnell, Wack Pack

A Long Collection of Interviews, and a Sort-of Apology

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‘On Being Human’

June 3, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Jennifer Pastiloff, On Being Human

Jennifer Pastiloff’s Memoir of Intentional Uplift

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