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Out in Africa

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Asylum, Edafe Opkoro

A moving but incomplete memoir by a gay-rights activist who fled Nigeria to seek a freer life in the U.S.A.

Dyer

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Geoff Dyer and the Art of the Navel Gaze

May 3, 2022May 5, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Geoff Dyer, Jack Kerouac, Larry McMurtry, The Last Days of Roger Federer

The essayist sings himself and celebrates himself, but at what cost?

Odenkirk

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Bob Odenkirk Makes a Memoir

March 8, 2022March 11, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Ben Stiller, Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, Breaking Bad, David Cross, Eric Wareheim, Mr. Show, Robert Smigel, Saturday Night Live, Tim Heidecker

The tale of his long and fractured road to stardom

Trejo

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Trejo’s Progress

August 10, 2021March 29, 2022 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Charles Bronson, Con Air, Danny Trejo, Donal Logue, Trejo

An ex-gangster’s crazy ride to Hollywood on the sober express

Hough

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Writer Lauren Hough Targets Goodreads Reviews

April 26, 2021March 28, 2022 Katie Smith 3 Comments Goodreads, Lauren Hough

Hough’s online supporters turned her debut memoir into a New York Times Bestseller

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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 1 Comment 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 9 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, 2020March 15, 2022 Ken Kurson 2 Comments 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, 2020March 15, 2022 Ken Kurson 11 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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