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Melissa Joan Hart’s Memoir is Coming, and It Has A Wonderful Title

Every now and then, something from the daily Publisher’s Lunch email—which tells of the latest book deals in the publishing industry—will catch our eye. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/09/11 8:47am

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Andy Cohen To Publish Memoir

Bravo executive Andy Cohen is to publish a memoir of his youth in the closet, his current work on TV, and his love of pop culture; The Hollywood Reporter indicates that Mr. Cohen, who oversees programming at Bravo while also anchoring the talk show Watch What Happens for the network, received a payment from Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/26/11 7:18pm

Profiles

Attention Must Be Paid: The Adventures of Royal Young

On a recent Friday night, the 26-year-old writer Royal Young held a reading of his unpublished memoir Fame Shark at the Lower East Side home of his parents. He had hoped to use the apartment rooftop, but it looked like rain so the event was held indoors. When The Observer arrived, Molly Jong-Fast, whom Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/20/10 11:30pm

WIKILEAKS

Knopf Lands Julian Assange Memoir

Julian Assange has inked a deal to release his memoirs, which will follow the 39-year-old transparency advocate’s journey from his youth as a hacker in Australia to his current status as controversial founder of Wikileaks. The book was acquired by Knopf, a division of Random House, in the U.S. and Canongate in the U.K., Read More

By Dan Duray 12/07/10 10:09pm

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15 Minutes With Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher’s touring show Wishful Drinking was recently filmed for an HBO special that debuts December 12. The show, which began on Broadway, is taken from her book of the same title and provides a broad overview of her many tabloid scandals — though Ms. Fisher says she’s actually not that much of a drinker. Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/05/10 4:39pm

Vanity

In Twilight of Career, Branson Hopes to Tap Pattinson for Biopic

Airborne stunt enthusiast, long-maned billionaire, intergalactic transportation pioneer, recent New Jersey party host — Sir Richard Branson is all of these things and more. As people like him are wont to do, the colorful British industrialist chronicled his rise to colossal success in a memoir that was published in 1998. It is called “Losing My Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/28/10 7:19pm

Teacher, Fired For Sex Worker Past, Penning Memoir

Melissa Petro was an art teacher at PS 70 in The Bronx when she wrote an essay for The Huffington Post that began thusly: “People — not just prostitutes — have sex for many reasons. Sometimes, for some of us, one reason is money.” The article was about her history as a Craigslist sex Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/21/10 10:19pm

Rumsfeld to Release Memoir in January, Name it After Incoherent Quote

In a statement, book publisher Sentinel said it will be releasing the memoirs of Donald Rumsfeld this January, the AP reports. The book will be called Known and Unknown, and will detail such Rumsfeld life stages as his childhood, his initiation into and long career in politics, and his role as the secretary of Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/07/10 3:02pm

Blair Cancels London Book Signing Amid Protests, Shoe-Throwing

The book tour for A Journey, the tell-all memoir from former British PM Tony Blair, is not exactly going according to plan. Upon arriving in Dublin to meet fans and sign copies of the highly anticipated book, Blair found the event swarmed by anti-war protestors wielding items such as shoes and eggs. These items soon Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/01/10 2:27pm

In New Memoir, Blair Calls Iraq War a 'Mistake'

In quotes from his memoir A Journey printed in today’s Daily Telegraph, former British PM Tony Blair discusses his somewhat Hitch-esque liquor intake — ”Stiff whisky or G&T before dinner, couple of glasses of wine or even half a bottle with it” — his feelings toward successor Gordon Brown and his country’s involvement in Read More

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Melissa Joan Hart’s Memoir is Coming, and It Has A Wonderful Title

Andy Cohen To Publish Memoir

Attention Must Be Paid: The Adventures of Royal Young

Knopf Lands Julian Assange Memoir

15 Minutes With Carrie Fisher

In Twilight of Career, Branson Hopes to Tap Pattinson for Biopic

Teacher, Fired For Sex Worker Past, Penning Memoir

Rumsfeld to Release Memoir in January, Name it After Incoherent Quote

Blair Cancels London Book Signing Amid Protests, Shoe-Throwing

In New Memoir, Blair Calls Iraq War a 'Mistake'

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