Culture
J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir
Thiel donated a record-setting fifteen million dollars to Vance’s successful 2022 bid for Ohio senator, but his largesse on this score…
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In Her Memoir, Jill Biden Continues to Avoid Reality
The best rationale for First Lady memoirs is that the domestic details they offer can serve as a lever, lifting the reader from the…
Culture
What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the…
Culture
Tom Freston’s new memoir shows how a ‘bebop lifestyle’ can lead to success
Tom Freston could easily fill a book with stories from the formative days of MTV and his celebrity encounters — Bono would merit a few…
Culture
‘The Motherload’: 20th Television to Develop Series Adaptation of Sarah Hoover Memoir (EXCLUSIVE)
Sarah Hoover‘s memoir “The Motherload: Episodes From the Brink of Motherhood” is in development as a drama series at 20th Television,…
Culture
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
Culture
Jonas Åkerlund to Direct Björn Borg’s Bestselling Memoir Adaptation for Banijay Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)
“Heartbeats,” the bestselling memoir of tennis legend Björn Borg, is set for a stylish adaptation with popular Swedish director Jonas…
Style
The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing…
Culture
Virginia Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals
Noor NanjiCulture reporter and George Wright Virginia Giuffre says she feared she might "die a sex slave" at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein…
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Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
It does feel kind of like a play. Even people who haven’t seen it know Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech. What was…
Culture
Lena Dunham Traces ‘Girls’ Fame, Chronic Illness and Heartbreak in Upcoming Memoir ‘Famesick’
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Taki Theodoracopulos Talks New Memoir, Princess Diana, Jeffrey Epstein and Boris Johnson’s Editor Years
The author and longtime columnist Taki Theodoracopulos is a man of many words, both spoken and written. So much so that it can be…
Culture
The Bolton Investigation Reportedly Involves More Than the Old Controversy over His Memoir
Even if the claims are true, it doesn’t make it less petty to pursue a criminal investigation against him. Source link
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Virginia Giuffre memoir to be published months after death
A posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, who accused the Duke of York and the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault,…
News
Nicola Sturgeon memoir describes arrest as 'worst day of my life'
Craig Williams BBC Scotland News Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described her arrest by police investigating the…
Culture
A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something…
Culture
Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir
Much of the issue here is that Lacey sketches her characters too vaguely for either of them to say something precise. At times, it’s hard…
Culture
James Frey’s New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds
The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by…
Style
Catherine Lacey’s Infinite Regress
A Möbius strip, a looped surface with a single continuous side, is often formed by cutting a long, thin piece of paper and joining its…
Culture
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
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Yiyun Li’s Unsparing Memoir of Life After Two Sons’ Suicides
Li, who left China in 1996 and now writes in her “adopted language” of English, doesn’t immediately appear to struggle with inarticulacy.…
Culture
What It Feels Like For A Girl: Trans teen drama based on Paris Lees memoir pulls no punches
Emma Saunders Culture reporter What It Feels Like For A Girl. A fairly innocuous title for a teen TV series, right? But the stars of BBC…
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Melania Trump’s AI-Generated Voice Narrates Audiobook of Her Memoir
First Lady Melania Trump released her recently published memoir “Melania” as an audiobook that will be available in multiple languages —…