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BOOK REVIEW

Pelosi Teaches America's Daughters to Complain

Dem's 'tiresome' tome not worth (short) read

Aug 4, 08 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi’s new book is titled Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. But if its contents, and the Democrat’s actions, are any indication, America’s daughters mostly have the power to whine, Samantha Sault writes in the Weekly Standard. Amid “tiresome feminist complaining,”... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • House of Representatives • memoir • book reviews • oil drilling

GLOSSIES

Madonna's Bro Dishes Dirt on Book Fallout

Says sis vowed vengeance, tried to
stop publication

Aug 4, 08 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Madonna and her brother Christopher Ciccone fell out over his recent tell-all memoir, and the situation nearly wound up in court, he tells Vanity Fair. She ranted at their father over photos he supplied for Life With My Sister Madonna, but "I am not knocking her off her pedestal,... More »

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memoir • autobiography • Madonna • Guy Ritchie • Christopher Ciccone

 More Madonna
 Dirt Surfaces
 in Bro's Book 

Claims she has S&M portrait in house near kids

Jul 11, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The forthcoming tell-all by Madonna’s estranged brother Christopher Ciccone is a treasure trove of gossip, the New York Post reports. More juicy bits trickling out from Life With My Sister Madonna:
  • Madonna hung an a 8-by-12-foot photo of herself in S&M gear, lying on a bed with
... More »

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memoir • Madonna • book • celebrity tell-alls • Guy Ritchie • Christopher Ciccone

 Mommy
 Spears-est 
 Memoir
 Unshelved 

Parenting book had been on hold after Jamie Lynne turned up preggers

Jun 12, 08 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lynn Spears’ book about raising daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn will hit stores in the fall, the publisher tells People. Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World was shelved when Jamie Lynn became pregnant last year. A spokesman for the publisher says... More »

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Britney Spears • parenting • tabloids • memoir • book • Lynne Spears • Jamie Lynn Spears • celebrity tell-alls • celebrity parents

 Madonna's 
 Brother 
 Pens
 Tell-All 

He'll publish memoir about his famous sis

Jun 11, 08 8:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Madonna's younger brother will release a memoir next month about his big sister, E! Online reports. Simon & Schuster is mum on whether Michael Ciccone's book offers any salacious details, but it has ordered 350,000 copies of Life With My Sister to hit stores on July 15. A Madonna... More »

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memoir • Madonna • Material Girl • celebrity tell-alls • Christopher Ciccone

'Realish' Sedaris Book Skirts Memoir Scrutiny

Genre 'the last place you’d expect to find the truth,' humorist says

Jun 8, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - With his new book of nonfiction essays, Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris finds himself engulfed in questions of truth and accuracy. In America, the recent explosion of memoirs has been followed with one scandal after another, prompting more scrutiny of the humorist’s work. “I do think Sedaris exaggerates... More »

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literature • humor • memoir • writer • book • fake memoirs • nonfiction books • David Sedaris

BOOK REVIEW

Shiny Morning No New Dawn for Frey

Critic lashes
fake memorist's
'execrable' new novel

May 13, 08 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The flap over James Frey's memoir-that-really-wasn't was bound to cast some clouds over his new novel Bright Shiny Morning. But lack of believability continues to be a key issue for the author with his "execrable" new book of two-dimensional characters in a city that bears little resemblance to LA,... More »

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Los Angeles • fiction • James Frey • memoir • book reviews • A Million Little Pieces • novel

Rap Anti-Gay? Try Oh-So-Gay, Claims Exposé

Former MTV exec reveals rap's gay scene in new memoir

May 11, 08 7:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many rappers tout anti-gay attitude, but some are secretly gay too—or so claims a former MTV exec in his upcoming memoir. “The book is not about outing people,” said Terrence Dean, author of Hiding in Hip Hop. “I wrote it so that people realize the industry... More »

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homophobia • MTV • discrimination • memoir • hip-hop • bigotry • rap music

 Ex-View Buddies Swap Barbs 

Onetime co-host slams Walters tell-all as cry for attention

May 7, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Star Jones is blasting back at Barbara Walters for claims made in her new tell-all memoir, US magazine reports. Walters writes in Audition that Jones compelled her and the other co-hosts of The View to lie about her gastric bypass surgery. More »

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The View • Barbara Walters • Star Jones • memoir • Audition • celebrity tell-alls • gastric bypass

 Baba Wawa 
 Flies High 
 on Book Tour  

Author picks up tab for private jet travel

May 6, 08 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barbara Walters is footing the bill so she can travel in style during her 25-city book tour, the Daily News reports. The 78-year-old, who received a $3 million advance for her memoir Audition, will not only pony up for private jet trips, she'll also bring along her hair and makeup... More »

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Barbara Walters • memoir • book • private jet

 Call Her Hannah Karenina 

Cyrus scores 7-figure book deal

Apr 22, 08 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, 15, has signed a seven-figure deal with Disney-Hyperion for a memoir, the New York Times reports today. The book will focus on her childhood in Tennessee and the positive influence of her mother on her career. It is scheduled to be released in spring 2009,... More »

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entertainment • Disney • memoir • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus • The Hannah Montana Movie

'Lonely Planet' Writer Admits
He Made It Up

Writer dealt drugs, took freebies, and oh yeah, never visited Colombia

Apr 14, 08 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lonely Planet guidebook executives are reeling in the wake of memoir confessions by one of their authors that he fabricated or plagiarized parts of the books—and dealt drugs to fund his trips. Thomas Kohnstamm also writes in Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? that he flouted guidebook policy by... More »

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plagiarism • Colombia • memoir • Lonely Planet • solo travel • cheap travel • Thomas Kohnstamm

 How to Fake a Memoir 

Embellish the story without getting caught, Slate scribe suggests

Mar 12, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Misha Defonseca's memoir left a sticky trail of lies about escaping Nazis and living with wolves. (It turns out wolf saliva isn't an antiseptic.) Tired of careless fabricators, Slate writes a how-to for aspiring fakers:
  • Keep it vague. Dates are verifiable—"awhile" is not.
  • Watch
... More »

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humor • James Frey • memoir • author • Margaret Seltzer • fake memoirs • Misha Defonseca • Margaret B. Jones • Nadine Gordimer • Asa Carter

Gang Memoir Exposed
as Fiction

Author of Love and Consequences fesses up to fabricating

Mar 4, 08 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with her birth parents in an... More »

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gangs • Los Angeles • fiction • publishing • memoir • author • book • fabrication • Penguin Group • Margaret Jones • Margaret Seltzer • South Central LA • Riverhead • Love and Consequences

Holocaust Memoir Mostly Fiction: Author

Best-seller on Jewish girl saved by wolves a fantasy, Belgian admits

Feb 29, 08 6:15 PM CST
(Newser) - A best-selling Holocaust memoir, which follows a 7-year-old Jewish girl who lived with wolves after losing her parents to the Nazis, is mostly fictional, its author confesses—in particular, the parts about the wolves and her being Jewish, Reuters reports. Misha Defonseca says she "always felt Jewish," but,... More »

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Holocaust • fiction • Nazi • memoir • escape

Mrs. Holly Blue About Peggy Sue

Rocker's wife wants to block real Peggy Sue's memoirs

Jan 13, 08 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The widow of rock legend Buddy Holly is prepared to sue the author of a new memoir to stop "tarnishment of Buddy Holly's name," the Independent reports. The target of the suit by Maria Elena Holly is pretty, pretty Peggy Sue herself—Peggy Sue Gerron, now 67, whose... More »

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lawsuit • memoir • Buddy Holly • Maria Elena Holly • Peggy Sue Gerron • Peggy Sue • the Crickets • Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?

Blair Takes
$1M Part-Time JPMorgan Job

Ex-PM will advise on global politics, retain Mideast envoy role

Jan 10, 08 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Former British PM Tony Blair will advise JPMorgan Chase on global politics, and pick up a check in the neighborhood of $1 million for his part-time trouble. Blair will keep his current job as the Quartet's envoy to the Middle East, reports the Times of London, but it's hardly his... More »

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Tony Blair • adviser • Mideast envoy • memoir • prime minister • Quartet • JPMorgan Chase

Kennedy Inks Blockbuster Deal for Memoir

Senator will discuss failed presidential bid, Chappaquiddick

Nov 27, 07 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - After a 6-day auction, Ted Kennedy's memoirs have sold for more than $8 million, the New York Times reports. Assuming the Senate Ethics Committee OKs the deal, Kennedy will discuss his lengthy career, infamous car crash, and failed presidential bid. He’s “walking, talking history,” gushed the... More »

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Ted Kennedy • memoir • book • Chappaquiddick • Mary Jo Kopechne

Bush Blamed in Plamegate

Press secretary says Bush gave him false information

Nov 20, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Bush's ex-press secretary says he falsely exonerated Scooter Libby and Karl Rove in the outing of a CIA agent in 2003 because the president told him to, Salon reports. A leaked excerpt of Scott McClellan’s upcoming memoir says that his misinformation came from "the president himself" when McClellan... More »

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Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby • memoir • Scott McClellan • George W. Bush

Best Memoirs About Money

Get the inside scoop on finance from those who live (and lived) it

Oct 20, 07 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some earn money; some write about it. Some do both. CNN Money recommends these six memoirs about money: getting it, managing it, spending it, and not having enough of it:
  1. The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
  2. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
  3. American Sucker by David
... More »

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Alan Greenspan • list • money • finance • memoir • Edwin Lefevre • David Denby • Benjamin Franklin • Barbara Ehrenreich • Michael Lewis

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