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Wednesday, Apr 17

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Hayden Panettiere, 34, announces she is coming out with a memoir about her heartbreaking addiction struggle: 'I was on top of the world and I ruined it'

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Hayden Panettiere opened up on about how addiction impacted her acting career in her forthcoming memoir. She said it was 'both daunting and exciting' as she shared her story in book form for the first time.

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Tom Selleck, 79, became an actor by ACCIDENT after '60s Pepsi commercial but had 'many failures' before landing Magnum PI at age 35 the Blue Bloods star writes in his new memoir: 'It was a long road'

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When he starred in a Pepsi commercial in the late 1960s, he started to feel that he could make a living as an actor, but it was a 'long road' to fame that was littered with many 'failures,' he told People.

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O.J. Simpson Used Memoir to Say He ‘Blacked Out’ at Grisly Scene of Ex-Wife’s Murder

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O.J. Simpson writes about it in his quasi-confessional memoir titled 'If I Did It,' in which he imagined how the killings happened. Continue reading…

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GOP Senate Candidate’s Error-Laden Memoir Villainized Baltimore, Freddie Gray

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Larry Hogan, the former Maryland Republican governor, has a moderate reputation — but spent his career wrongfully demonizing Baltimore

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Salman Rushdie’s fearless memoir Knife uses his assassin’s blade as a ‘reckoning’

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The writer, who lost an eye and use of his hand in the attempted murder, uses witty prose to overcome the urge to confront his attacker in the flesh

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir is an intimate political history and a love story set amid the roil of American politics

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"An Unfinished Love Story" reminds readers young and old of the unfulfilled promise sparked during the 1960s.

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Starmer challenges Sunak over Truss' book of memoirs

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The Labour leader asks the PM about his predecessor claiming her Budget was the "happiest moment of her premiership".

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'I've read enough Liz Truss books': Minister snubs ex-PM's new memoir

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A government minister has said she won't be reading Liz Truss's memoir of her brief time in Downing Street as "that's a period I'm not interested in re-visiting".

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MasterChef Australia star Julie Goodwin reveals heartbreaking childhood trauma in her new memoir: 'I am lucky to be here'

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Julie Goodwin has opened up about a distressing childhood trauma detailed in her new memoir.

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Is Prince Harry's US Visa Application Being Reviewed Because of His Memoir Spare? Find Out Here

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A judge is considering Prince Harry's application for a US visa in light of his book, Spare, which included admissions about his drug usage. In an attempt to ascertain whether the fifth in line for the throne, along with his spouse, Meghan…

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TV Icon Tom Selleck Talks 'Accidental Career' And Why He Was Hesitant To Tell Life Story Even In The Era Of Celeb Memoirs

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Blue Bloods star Tom Selleck reflected on his lengthy "lucky" career, and why it took him so long to come around to writing his autobiography.

Tuesday, Apr 16

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‘It Is Really The Story Of An Accidental Career’: Tom Selleck Opens Up About His Upcoming Memoir

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Tom Selleck will release his memoir, You Never Know, describing his “accidental acting career” while having his own ups and downs. The memoir reflects on the actor's fortunate life, and yet, at the age of 79, the Hollywood star looks at…

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Salman Rushdie and his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths confront past attack in new memoir

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Award-winning author Salman Rushdie describes his new memoir as a "reckoning." In 2022, he was stabbed in the neck and abdomen more than a dozen times in western New York and lost sight in his right eye. In Rushdie's new memoir, "Knife:…

A Memoir of Three Years in a Mental Hospital

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In her new book Committed, Suzanne Scanlon writes about being institutionalized in her youth and how she eventually got out.

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Liz Truss’s memoir is ludicrous and shows how unworthy of office our shortest-serving PM was

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It’s rare for a political memoir to be as self-serving and poorly composed as ‘Ten Years to Save the West’, in which Truss recaps her doomed, disastrous 49 days in office. Whether she’s being informed of the Queen’s death or crashing the…

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Salman Rushdie recalls stabbing in first memoir since near-fatal attack

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British-American author Salman Rushdie recounts the 2022 stabbing at a public event that left him blind in one eye in "Knife", his first memoir since the near-fatal attack, which hits English language bookstores on Tuesday. The French…

Monday, Apr 15

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Salman Rushdie, Knife review: Author’s moving, sardonic memoir is not for the squeamish

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‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’ details the attempt on the Indian-born British-American’s life in 2022