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Topic: Memoirs

Alice Coltrane ( Echoes/Redferns/Getty Images)

Books that fill in music's missing pages

Caryn Rose
Lindy West attends the Hulu "Shrill" FYC screening at the Television Academy (Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu/Getty Images)

People really love to see feminists fail

Andi Zeisler
Melissa Auf der Maur (Jessica Chappe)

The beauty and brutality of '90s rock

Caryn Rose
(Illustration by Salon / Penguin Random House / Grand Central Publishing / Simon & Schuster / Little, Brown Books for Young Readers / )

9 spring memoirs not to skip

Andi Zeisler
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Justin Townes Earle (Da Capo)

Music books that tell the hard parts

Caryn Rose
Cynthia Erivo at the NYC premiere of "Wicked: For Good" on November 17, 2025 (Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Erivo’s memoir faces family, identity

Angelina Mazza
Patti Smith, 1977 (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

Patti Smith opens her story's last door

Caryn Rose
Tim Curry (FOX Image Collection via Getty Images)

Tim Curry is Gen X’s favorite villain

Andi Zeisler
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Ozzy Osbourne onstage during the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

Ozzy was ready to die, but not to go

Andi Zeisler
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the Emerge 20th Anniversary Gala in San Francisco, California, on April 30, 2025. (CAMILLE COHEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris memoir revisits Biden tensions

Angelina Mazza
Singer Peter Wolf, founding member of The J. Geils Band, performs onstage during the Jim Irsay Collection Exhibit and Concert at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on January 11, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Peter Wolf was warned about his memoir

Kenneth Womack
Emmy award-winning talk show host Phil Donahue (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Phil Donahue, a pro-democracy feminist

David Masciotra
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American Negra (Photo courtesy of Riverchild Media)

The American dream without assimilation

D. Watkins
Woman lying and reading book on a jetty (Getty Images/Westend61)

9 celebrity memoirs to read in 2024

Nardos Haile
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks alongside U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) at a news conference on border security outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene memoir is a flop

Joy Saha
Aparna Nancherla (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"True equality is embracing mediocrity"

Nardos Haile
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Sinead O'Connor rips photo of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live" October 3, 1992 (Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images)

O'Connor memoir details Pope photo stunt

Kylie Cheung
Lady reading recipe in culinary book at home with kitchenware on table (Getty Images)

Comfort me with food memoirs

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Chef Kwame Onwuachi (Salon Talks)

Kwame Onwuachi’s culinary comeback story

D. Watkins
Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys (AP/Tony Dejak)

Inside the Beastie Boys’ moving memoir

Simon Vozick-Levinson - Rolling Stone
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Chike Frankie Edozie (Jimbé Carroll)

In Africa, the homophobia is imported

Rachel Leah
Cover detail of "Are You Anybody?: A Memoir" by Jeffrey Tambor (Crown Archetype)

"Are You Anybody?"

Melanie McFarland
(Universal Pictures)

Me and Robert De Niro

Illeana Douglas
(AP/Andrew Harnik)

Takeaways from Cruz's book

Sophia Tesfaye
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