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Topic: Memoirs

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
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
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
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
Sarah Hepola

The drunkard's loop

Laura Miller
Photos of the author in boozier times.

Sarah Hepola
Wednesday Martin, Alice Goffman (Simon & Schuster/Elena Seibert/University of Wisconsin-Madison)

We can't handle the truth

Laura Miller
(YouTube/Zoella/AP/Evan Agostini)

Outselling Kim Kardashian

Laura Miller
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

"In other words, black people"

Luke Brinker
Lena Dunham (AP/Evan Agostini)

What Lena Dunham's "learned"

Laura Miller
(Danielle Donders)

Brando Skyhorse: My mom lied

Gary M. Kramer

Teaching under Common Core

Laura Miller

A barf bag got her a book deal

Mary Elizabeth Williams
J. D. Salinger, Joanne Smith Rakoff (AP/David Ignaszewski)

"I read Salinger's fan mail"

Laura Miller
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