Lives like Cosey Fanni Tutti’s are practically crying out to be written down. Born Christine Newby in 1951 in Yorkshire, England, she’d eventually be dubbed “Cosmosis” (“Cosey,” for short) by the infamous Genesis P-Orridge, the boyfriend with whom she’d go on to found the art collective COUM Transmission in the late…
For people who live to eat, this is a golden age. Food documentaries, where every last oyster is lovingly and tenderly plated in slow motion, abound. There are hundreds of shows—competition-based, conversational, and educational—devoted to the topic. BuzzFeed’s Tasty exists.
Ivana Trump, the first wife of President Donald Trump, announced today that she will publish a memoir. According to Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Raising Trump is a book about “motherhood, strength and resilience.” The book, which will include chapters on her childhood in Czechoslovakia and her…
“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual,” writer Ariel Levy says at the beginning of her new memoir The Rules Do Not Apply. That sentence is a concise description of Levy’s excitement upon starting work at New York magazine in the late ’90s, but it also works as an explanation for…
In 2012, beauty writer and noted drug aficionado Cat Marnell sold a book proposal to Simon & Schuster for $500,000. Marnell, known for her xoJane beauty columns about partying, had a gift for glamorizing what would be, in a lesser writer’s hands, perhaps a rock bottom. “Look, I couldn’t spend another summer meeting…
Late Tuesday night a miserable thought burst into my head. “How’s Penny doing!?” I wondered with a gasp. In the span of six short months, 73-year-old Penny Marshall lost both her brother Garry (who died in July) and her best friend, Carrie Fisher. She’s made very few public comments about Garry’s death, and—to the…
Lindy West is one of American culture’s most invaluable voices. Thousands of us turn to her for unflinching, incisive cultural criticism and shattering wit. In May, she published her memoir, Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman, which explores body image and the many ways in which American society teaches women to be…
While promoting her upcoming book of journals, The Princess Diarist, on Today Monday morning, writer/actress/Penny Marshall’s best friend Carrie Fisher was asked about last week’s revelation that she and committed earring lover Harrison Ford had an affair in 1976, when he was still married to Mary Marquadt. “I don’t…
Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace named her new memoir Tranny (subtitle: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout), which at the very least has the eye-grabbing potential that is useful in book-selling, being a slur and all. But instead of signaling a full-on reclamation of the label, a la…
Tyler Henry isn’t the first person to launch a lucrative career by supposedly talking to spirits on TV, but he’s probably the youngest. The 20-year-old whom you may know from his successful show on E! as the “Hollywood Medium,” or from Jezebel as something akin to a modern-day snake oil salesman, refers to his…
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is releasing a memoir on November 15, where she’ll reportedly address rumors that Roger Ailes sexually harassed her, in the same decades-long time period where he was reportedly sexually harassing seemingly the majority of the women who crossed his eyeline. Radar Online has obtained what…
Hey y’all! Reese Witherspoon, the Academy Award-winning actress, avid reader, and founder of the dreadfully boring Southern-inspired lifestyle brand Draper James, is writing a book! She “has a deal with Touchstone for a lifestyle book based on her upbringing in Tennessee” that’s due out in 2018.
Zayn Malik is 23 years old, which means he’s only about 60 years removed from being an octogenarian, and less than 40 years away from being a SEXagenarian. He’s lived all the life he could possibly live and so it’s time to release a memoir. And we have a juicy excerpt. Here it is. Ready?
Anna Faris is vaulting herself into the celebrity memoir game with the release of her upcoming book, Unqualified.
A Scottish actress is trying her hardest to promote a book about living in Zambia for a few months in the late 1990s, an experience she describes as a harrowing, war-torn “nightmare.” It was all going fine until Zambians began reading her account and pointed out that in addition to being a pile of racist and laughably…
In a post to her fans beginning with “Dear Ones,” the best-selling author of Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, announced that her 12 year marriage to José Nunes had come to an end. He was the Love section.
Ron Miscavige—the person who’s partly responsible for bringing the leader of Scientology, David Miscavige, into this world—wrote a memoir due this spring that will surely only have nice things to say about a religion known for intimidating and exiling its former members.
Chill out, you’re not getting a memoir. But Book Club enthusiast Oprah Winfrey is, and it’s about time.
I haven’t read every letter in Mary-Louise Parker’s new memoir Dear Mr. You, but I did skim all 34 of them in my hunt for a story about one particular person from her life. You see, Parker never names names in her collection of letters, and instead gives each one titles like “Dear Risk Teacher,” “Dear Movement…
