EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksIn Spite of It All, Jill Duggar Portrays Her Dad Jim Bob as a Pretty Swell Guy in Memoir"Counting the Cost," which had such potential, is marred by vagueness and a wishy-washy perspective on a "cult-like"…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedSeptember 14, 2023Comments (19)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksElon Musk Biography Rife With Egregious Behavior, Billionaire Fallouts, Sexual FantasiesWe pulled 13 big revelations as reported by Walter Isaacson in "Elon Musk."ByKylie CheungPublishedSeptember 13, 2023Comments (18)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksJill Duggar to Jim Bob: 'You Treat Me Worse Than You Treat My Pedophile Brother'The quote comes from her new memoir, Counting the Cost, in which Jill describes the time she went to meditation with…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedSeptember 12, 2023Comments (31)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksSex Writer and Pornographer Tristan Taormino Finally Feels Naked in Public With New MemoirA legend of her field, Taormino told Jezebel she got a lot of rejections for this book: "I began to think, 'Is the…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedSeptember 8, 2023Comments (4)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksPrachi Gupta Smashes the Model Minority Myth in Her Devastating Memoir 'They Called Us Exceptional'With Jezebel, Gupta discusses her "dysfunctional" family and living a double life: "I questioned my sanity almost…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedAugust 22, 2023Comments (17)
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptAbusers Commit Political Violence When They Control Partners' Access to VotingIn her new book on domestic abuse, Kylie Cheung quotes one survivor who said, "I felt if I didn’t vote the way he…ByKylie CheungPublishedAugust 15, 2023Comments (1)
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptInside the Early Days at Dov Charney's Seedy, Weirdly Horny American ApparelKate Flannery, who was hired in 2005, writes in a new book that he called sexual harassment lawsuits against him…ByKate FlanneryPublishedJuly 21, 2023Comments (10)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksWhat Was Afoot When 100 People Were Trapped at Agatha Christie’s Estate on Friday??The truth will shock you! (For how mundane it is.)ByCaitlin CruzPublishedJuly 14, 2023Comments (6)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksBritney Spears Memoir, 'The Woman in Me,' Planned for October ReleaseA a celebrity memoir connoisseur, I couldn’t be more excited for a potentially explosive, juicy account of Spears’…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedJuly 11, 2023Comments (2)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooks11 Books You Should Read This SummerFrom steamy romances to coming-of-age novels to a history of the hot dog, we've got the perfect beach or park read…ByJezebel StaffPublishedJune 19, 2023Comments (5)
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptIn South Korea, 'Lookism' Is 'Enforced With Open Discrimination'When she was posted to Seoul, journalist Elise Hu was bowled over by the beauty industry's dominance—and…ByElise HuPublishedMay 26, 2023Comments (26)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksElon Musk Got a Suspicious Glow-Up in His Biography Cover ArtHopefully, the book does more to dissuade readers of Musk's purported genius than this cover does.ByKady Ruth AshcraftPublishedMay 18, 2023Comments (16)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooks‘The Guest’ Is a Masterful Train Wreck About a Scammer’s Week in the HamptonsThrilling and compassionate, Emma Cline's second novel is an early contender for beach-read of the summer.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedMay 11, 2023
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptAbortion Can Be an Act of Parenting“No amount of love and desire for the fetus will relieve its future suffering... So River has made an appointment,"…ByHannah MatthewsPublishedMay 2, 2023
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksNora Ephron’s Sister on Why ‘Heartburn’ Is Just As Searing 40 Years OnShe looked "around herself...at everybody’s lives, at everybody’s marriages, and had something to say about it,"…ByEmily LeibertPublishedMarch 28, 2023Comments (9)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksParis Hilton Isn’t Dumb—She Knows How to Write What Her Fans Want to ReadParis: A Memoir is an abysmal mix of telling and not showing, bad sentences, and open image cultivation from a…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedMarch 16, 2023Comments (41)
EntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptEntertainmentBooksBook ExcerptIn Ballet, Pain Really Is Beauty"I wanted bunions, blisters, bleeding toenails, and I envied the girls who bruised more easily," Alice Robb writes…ByAlice RobbPublishedMarch 2, 2023Comments (6)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksNew J.K. Rowling Podcast Is Just Pretending To Be InsightfulThe Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, brought to you by Bari Weiss' the Free Press, is dead on arrival.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedFebruary 22, 2023Comments (97)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksThe Best Celebrity Memoirs of the YearJenette McCurdy, Selma Blair, Colton Haynes, and Constance Wu are among the celebs whose words made noise in 2022.ByRich JuzwiakPublishedDecember 19, 2022Comments (1)
EntertainmentBooksEntertainmentBooksThis YA Novel About a Possibly Demonic Cat Is Recommended Halloween ReadingThe Witches of Worm, now a half-century old, is an unsung creepfest with uncommon compassion for its lonely tween…ByRich JuzwiakPublishedOctober 26, 2022Comments (2)