How to navigate this years glut of memoirs.
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Here, a brief guide to 2023s overflowing library ofcelebrity memoirs(and memoirishes).
So she and Will Smitharent married but are also not divorced.
So she did ayahuasca.
ToquoteRick Ross inRolling Stone: Whats next?!
And to be honest, were not interested!
The actors memoir reckoned with his self-identity and freedom since coming out as trans in 2020.
(You also cant unhear Williams, as Timberlake,saying fo shizin another chapter.
)People areallegedlyalready lining up to adapt the book; the Britney Spears trauma-industrial complex marches on.
As he told me years later when we were reminiscing, Now thats intimacy.
Ive never slept better in my life.
RelevancyPloys
A bookstore endcap isnt the comeback they hoped for.
Moores ex-wife Kim Gordons memoir,Girl in a Band,is a beloved text among alt-rock fans.
Here, her crack at the self-seriouscomedian memoirsuffers from tonal whiplash.
AARPMonthlyPicks
Your aunt is having a blast with these in her book club.
The actor examines a self-made life with a working-class upbringing.
We are not here to have fun, he reprimanded them, though his memoir proves otherwise.
Winklers easygoing humor and sentimentality have made him a star for decades.
The 90-year-old theater legends memoir is full of sharp, insightful humor.
While Rivera has everything from celebrity gossip (John Lennon was rude!)
AdviceColumns
That didnt need to be a book.
A measured series of conversations that covers everything from Derns burgeoningcareer as a child actorto Ladds industry resentments.
She seems to know that too, relying heavily onOlitz fan serviceduring the press tour.
The fact that it took about 10,000 photos (ten THOUSAND?)
to get the cover right is weirder and more interesting than whats on the page.
One of his tools for life is working incrementally toward your goals.
If you have that one down already, were pretty sure you might skip this one.
Is this the celeb memoir title of the year?
It just might be …
One of those where the title says it all.
HeavyStuff
The pop page-turner is dead; long live the trauma dump.
His memoir finally allows him to speak for himself, his successes reclaimed as his own.
Though she comes out of it smiling in the end, readers may struggle to do the same.
DamnGoodReads
Add these to your holiday wish list stat.
Wattss sharp voice and loving portrait of his upbringing in Montana make for engaging, wonderful anecdotes.
On his best friend: Wed played and quit the football team together.
We still hung out constantly.
Still listened to the Smiths, still playedDungeons & Dragons.
Get you a man who can do all three.
Foxs offbeat sense of humor and dogged persistence set her apart from other It girls.
I do not exist just to move plot, Ziwe writes.
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