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2 days ago

Writer Orlean to discuss new memoir Joyride' next week in Oakland hills

Susan Orlean's curiosity drives exploration of everyday commonalities and anomalies, fueling prolific narrative nonfiction, book tours, and public readings.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Speak the Truth as We See It

Confronting painful family history requires truthful acknowledgment despite denial, protection of reputations, and the temptation to construct comforting narratives.
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2 days ago

Writing with trauma: Israeli and Palestinian authors speak DW 10/21/2025

Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif could hardly hide his outrage. The Israeli military had destroyed not just buildings, but an entire culture, he told DW. He wants to use the medium of writing to save whatever is still salvageable. But what can you save in a war-torn wasteland? All that remains are memories, the author says. Saif is among the best-known Palestinian writers, his reputation derived in part from the fact that he served as the Palestinian Authority's Minister for Culture from 2019 to 2024,
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fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

How a Former Polygamist "Sister Wife" Learned to Love Monogamy

Christine Brown Woolley grew up in Utah with a dad and two moms, in a polygamist community called the Apostolic United Brethren. When she became an adult, she joined a polygamist marriage as a third wife, helped raise more than a dozen kids, and became co-star of the TLC reality show Sister Wives. Fast forward to 2025, and she has left her marriage and her polygamist faith.
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5 days ago

In "Spanish Stew", Marga Gomez dishes about queer S.F. in the '70s

Marga Gomez turns her Puerto Rican-Cuban family history and 1976 San Francisco arrival into queer memoir theatre with the premiere of Spanish Stew.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35

Baek Se-hee died at 35; her organ donations saved five lives, and her memoir reached over a million readers worldwide.
US news
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1 week ago

In new memoir, John T. Edge explores Southern identity and a troubled family history

A Southern memoir confronts family trauma, alcoholism, and a childhood gun incident while tracing a lifetime of searching for home through food and culture.
#lukas-gage
Arts
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1 week ago

This week brings a bumper harvest of brand new books

A diverse selection of noteworthy new books spans memoir to speculative fiction, each competing in a crowded publishing season and worth checking out at libraries.
fromBustle
1 week ago

Lukas Gage's Favorite Literary Characters Are As Chaotic As He Is

Growing up, I'd lie to my diary to just make my life seem more entertaining. I lied about having horses, [living] in a big mansion, and that I was on American Idol,
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New York City
fromsilive
1 week ago

She lost her 16-year-old brother in a tragic accident, dated the mayor, and is now telling all in a revealing memoir

Jasmine Ray lost her brother, founded the United States Wall Ball Association for community sports, and had a brief 2015 romantic relationship with Eric Adams.
Film
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

The new San Francisco movie that will make you cry

Fairyland portrays a daughter's coming-of-age with a gay single father in 1970s–80s San Francisco, blending tenderness with the AIDS-era caregiving experience.
#addiction
Education
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op': Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical and how getting high nearly broke her

Malala Yousafzai smoked her first bong in a hidden Lady Margaret Hall shed, an event she says profoundly changed her life.
#kamala-harris
fromAdvocate.com
1 week ago
US politics

Kamala Harris reclaims the stage in Washington at defiant book talk with Kara Swisher

Kamala Harris urged joyful resistance, persistence, and rebuilding hope amid perceived threats to democracy and institutional failures under the Trump administration.
fromConsequence
2 months ago
US politics

Kamala Harris Announces "107 Days Tour"

Kamala Harris will embark on a 15-city fall 2025 tour promoting her memoir about the 2024 presidential campaign, beginning September 24 in New York City.
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2 weeks ago

Craft, not fame, makes your story worth telling - Herbert Lui

I've bought and flipped through a couple of memoirs lately from popular recording artists. Tens of millions of people stream their music on Spotify every month. It's not surprising that traditional publishers would offer them book deals. What's surprising, at least to me, is how boring they are. One artist seemed to put little effort into the book; a ghostwriter did the heavy lifting. When the artist does interviews, he seems to be talking about nothing. The book feels the same way.
Chicago
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1 week ago

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's longtime chaplain and 2018 NCAA celebrity, died at 106, leaving a legacy of wisdom, compassion, and spiritual guidance.
Television
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2 weeks ago

Leland Vittert Opens Up On Autism, 'Love Letter' To Father

Leland Vittert credits his father for quitting work to support him through autism, teaching social skills, emotional regulation, and sustained daily care.
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2 weeks ago

'Mormon Wives' star Mayci Neeley shares her complex life in new memoir

Macyi Neeley reveals sexual assault, unplanned pregnancy, and grief while navigating Mormon faith and public life as a #MomTok influencer.
Books
fromTODAY.com
2 weeks ago

EXCLUSIVE: Bunnie XO on Podcasting and Motherhood (and Where They Collide)

Parenting teenagers is intensely difficult but can transform into deep friendship as teens mature, while patience learned from family aids public interviewing.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America': a culture critic on his hometown, race, police and art

Baltimore life, art, and hip-hop intertwine to trace a journey of personal growth, early fatherhood, and resistance amid racialized urban politics.
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2 weeks ago

Maye Musk, mother of the world's richest man: There's nothing a Musk can't do'

There isn't a soul on the streets of Chelsea on a Sunday in summer. The residents of this New York neighborhood once an industrial area in lower Manhattan, now transformed into a haven for bohemian bourgeois have abandoned their luxurious lofts overlooking the High Line to retreat to their beach houses in the Hamptons.
Fashion & style
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

How FBI undercover actually works, according to a former agent

FBI agent Scott Payne served 28 years in law enforcement, including going undercover in violent neo-Nazi cells, the Ku Klux Klan, and outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Law
fromAnOther
2 weeks ago

How Hans Ulrich Obrist Became the World's Most Influential Curator

'The others are about a specific artist or the history of curating ... [My French publisher Seuil] felt it might be of interest to do a personal book but there was never the time. At least at the beginning of lockdown, before all the Zoom calls started, there was a bit of time! The death of my mother was also an important aspect.'
Arts
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I'm just Ken: why is Kenneth Branagh narrating Anthony Hopkins's memoir?

Kenneth Branagh will narrate Anthony Hopkins's memoir audiobook We Did OK, Kid, while Hopkins will read a selection of his favourite poems.
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3 weeks ago

'I can't stop DJing,' Mark Ronson says never mind the back pain

"And I remember standing inside the house looking through the window as my stepdad pulls my mom in for a slow dance," Ronson says. "And I just stood there watching the scene, slightly drunk off this feeling of like, 'Oh my God, this is my music playing out there.' But also it was ... like the first time in my life I genuinely have a memory of having done something right."
Music
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

New books this week: War, murder, and Lionel Richie

A new fall list pairs dark fiction—ghosts, murder, war, ritual—with Lionel Richie's expansive, celebratory memoir, plus translations and returning crime-series installments.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
3 weeks ago

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Portlanders Fight for Gaza, House Parties Ahoy, and the Rapture That Wasn't

Portlanders joined the Global Sumud Flotilla departing Spanish ports to try to breach Israel's blockade and deliver aid to Gaza, facing drone attacks.
Music
fromInsideHook
3 weeks ago

Teacher and Student: How Jeff Tweedy's "Solo Band" Is Revitalizing His Career

Jeff Tweedy experienced a rebirth in 2018–2019, releasing candid solo albums, embracing a joyful persona, forming a collaborative band, and recording a 30‑song triple album.
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fromIndependent
4 weeks ago
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Sophie White: Reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new controversial memoir made me realise just how out of touch the self-help industry is

fromIndependent
4 weeks ago
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Sophie White: Reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new controversial memoir made me realise just how out of touch the self-help industry is

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fromAnOther
4 weeks ago

In His New Memoir, Playwright Martin Sherman Reckons with His Past

Martin Sherman overcame childhood fear, illness, and insecurity to become a celebrated playwright whose work confronted persecution of gay men and cultural change.
fromRoger Ebert
4 weeks ago

An Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls | Interviews | Roger Ebert

I think I have an ear for writing for women because I have a very vocal grandmother, mother, and sister. I was a young actor. I started officially at the age of seven and a half. And one of my first teachers said, "Just listen to other people and observe and watch people. Go to a mall, watch people." Well, I went to malls, I went to my living room, I went to my dining room table,
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A resistance to AI': The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard created a chessboard-structured Universal Turing Machine inviting public 64-year contributions of 1,000-word life-squares to assert human memory against AI.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Joe Manchin reflects on his most controversial decisions in new memoir 'Dead Center'

Joe Manchin blames both major parties for political polarization, identifies as an independent, and champions common-sense, bipartisan cooperation.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Night People by Mark Ronson review - a superstar DJ's coming of age

A privileged nightlife insider recounts a late-night upbringing, technical DJ obsession, wry self-deprecation, and vivid, nerdy details of music culture and scenes.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I tried to escape with drugs, pills and alcohol': Bjorn Borg on his misery and mayhem after quitting tennis

Björn Borg retired at his peak and later revealed decades of addiction, despair, and near-fatal overdoses in his memoir.
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Cameron Crowe Announces 2025 "The Uncool Book Tour" Dates

"filled with intimate evenings of storytelling, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and the music that shaped his life,"
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fromBustle
1 month ago

Why Jay Ellis Always Reads Before Bed

Jay Ellis found reading as a child to be an escape during frequent relocations, inspiring a memoir about imaginary friend Mikey and boyhood experiences.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang review a daughter of China speaks again

Wild Swans, first published in 1991 and written by Jung Chang with the help of her husband, Irish-born historian and writer Jon Halliday, had a global impact few authors dare to dream of. It told the story of three generations of women in 20th-century China Chang's grandmother, her mother and herself and became one of the most popular nonfiction books in history, selling more than 13m copies in 37 languages and collecting a fistful of awards and commendations.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Five Nonfiction Books That Read Like Fiction

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Nonfiction books sometimes get a reputation for being hard to slog through. But the qualities that make good novels so enjoyable-the well-paced plot, the engaging characters-can also be found in many of their fact-based counterparts. The Atlantic 's writers and editors answer the question: What is a nonfiction book that reads like fiction?
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Country star Ty Herndon pulls back the curtain with new memoir 'What Mattered Most'

Country star Ty Herndon rose to fame in the music industry in 1995, when his single "What Mattered Most" skyrocketed to the top of the charts. Since then, he's released 16 more Billboard charting hits. Now, three decades later, Herndon is releasing his memoir, "What Mattered Most," where he offers an honest reflection of his unprecedented career in the spotlight and the personal battles he's faced behind the scenes.
Music
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I Love You, Byeee by Adam Buxton audiobook review warm and witty whimsy

Adam Buxton’s memoir I Love You, Byeee revisits his mother, career, and friendship with Joe Cornish, delivered in a warm, audio-focused, self-deprecating style.
Books
fromVulture
1 month ago

10 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Fall

New releases explore intimate relationships, historical and generational reckonings, cross-cultural family tensions, and speculative connections spanning 2008–2027 and the Depression era.
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
1 month ago

John Downing: 'Kate O'Connell was disloyal' and six other takeaways from Leo Varadkar's new book

Leo Varadkar seeks to justify his political actions and sometimes rewrites historical events less than a year after leaving electoral politics.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Whoopi Goldberg: Live review like reading a boomer relative's Facebook

Whoopi Goldberg performs a loose, anecdotal evening of comedy and memoir focused on aging, family, technology, and fan interaction.
Podcast
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

A Comedy Writer Tries to Make Sense of Her Sex-Positive, Goofy, Sometimes Inappropriate Family

A childhood split between Argentina and the U.S. involved a loud, crass, sex-positive, and often hilarious nuclear family with complex emotional ups and downs.
Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I've done everything but this': Samantha Harris on modelling, motherhood and growing up in public

Samantha Harris, pregnant and a fashion veteran, published a memoir pairing her modelling rise with her mother's forced removal from an Aboriginal mission.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

To 2049 by American poet Jorie Graham is one of my favourite collections of recent times and rereading it recently was incredibly rewarding. Filled with slippery and existentially evocative lines such as Years pulled their / lengths through us like long wet strings, it had me pointing at some of the pages gasping: I wish I wrote this! (a condition I frequently suffer from, known as poem-envy).
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Music
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1 month ago

Kid Cudi Confronts the Past with "Mr. Miracle" Ahead of Free | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Kid Cudi's near-fatal overdose became a turning point that fueled his survival, creative reinvention, and a pop-punk-tinged preview of his upcoming album Free.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

How Miriam Toews Lives With the Unspeakable

Blame George Orwell, who in 1946 famously published "Why I Write," an essay contending with the motives of "political purpose" and "aesthetic enthusiasm," which fueled his career, even while noting that the decision to put pen to paper is in some ways inexplicable. "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," Orwell wrote.
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Writing
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

My advice to Taylor Swift after her engagement: don't stop writing about your heartache

Publishing candid memoirs about past breakups revived a writing career and strengthened a mid-30s marriage despite spouse's initial concerns.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago
US news

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre's memoir will be published months after her death

Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir recounts her role exposing Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking ring and will be published posthumously.
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1 month ago
US news

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir Nobody's Girl will be published Oct. 21, detailing her abuse, systemic trafficking failures, and pursuit of justice.
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fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago
UK news

Sturgeon memoir describes arrest as 'worst day of my life'

Nicola Sturgeon described her police arrest as the worst day of her life during the investigation of the SNP's finances.
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2 months ago

In new memoir Fetishized,' former model Kaila Yu reckons with Asian misrepresentation, stereotypes

As a young Taiwanese girl living in the Inland Empire, former singer and import model-turned-writer Kaila Yu said she often felt uncomfortable in her skin, growing up around Eurocentric beauty standards. I felt like my features weren't desirable, Yu said of her childhood. I felt very insecure about all of that. The now 46-year-old L.A.-based author explores themes of sexuality and race in her debut memoir, Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, out everywhere books are sold.
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Food & drink
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

Where the Chefs Eat: Slutty Cheff's favourite romantic restaurants in London

Anonymous Instagram chef Slutty Cheff gained fame for acerbic posts, a Vogue column, and a memoir about kitchen life, anxiety, and social-media fame.
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#lgbtq
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fromUntapped New York
2 months ago

Bullied to Besties Book Launch with Author Gayle Kirschenbaum

Kirschenbaum's memoir details her journey from childhood bullying to forging forgiveness with her mother.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Disability Memoirs Have a New Purpose

Helen Keller's autobiography reveals the challenges of accurately recounting personal history without imposing fantasy.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I was completely dehumanised by my father': how Kate Price uncovered the horrifying truths of her childhood

Kate Price's memoir explores her childhood sexual abuse by her father and her path to healing through academic research on child exploitation.
US politics
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Cheryl Hines Confirms She Has Moved into Husband RFK Jr.'s DC Townhouse-5 Key Takeaways

Cheryl Hines has moved to Washington, D.C., to live with her husband amid rumors about their marriage.
fromArchitectural Digest
8 months ago

Cher at Home: The Goddess of Pop's Domestic Life in 22 Photos

Cher's early life was marked by poverty and abuse, but those hardships didn't prevent her from finding stardom in the 1960s.
Music
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
2 months ago

Disney star on why they won't discuss being non-binary in new memoir

"I realised that there would be people who had never met a single openly queer person in their life, reading this alongside people who would probably already feel quite shocked by all of the other revelations and my journey with gender identity."
LGBT
Miscellaneous
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

'An Evening with Leo' - Tickets for Varadkar's book launch event cost 51.50

Mr. Varadkar's memoir, Speaking My Mind, highlights reflections on his political career and personal insights.
fromKqed
2 months ago

The Gangster's Scholar: Richmond's Shanice Robinson on Loving a Man Serving Life | KQED

Resilience to me is not about the absence of struggle; it's having the audacity to dream beyond it.
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New York City
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Gillian Anderson appears to be mystery lover in famed restaurateur's book

Keith McNally had a secret romance with a Hollywood actress, referred to as X, now speculated to be Gillian Anderson from The X-Files.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Dead Outlaws, From Hollywood Queen to Country Lawyer

Ava Gardner, facing financial struggles, reluctantly agrees to write a memoir, highlighting her complex relationship with fame.
Television
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

'I made 247,000 in tennis... so not a lot': Conor Niland on the true cost of competitive sport

Conor Niland transitioned from professional tennis to commercial property and writing after a modest earnings career in competitive sports.
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fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

Conor Niland: 'In tennis, you can be talking 100,000+ in yearly expenses'

Conor Niland transitioned from professional tennis to a career in commercial property and authored an award-winning memoir.
fromTasting Table
2 months ago

Ina Garten Almost Quit Television After This Disaster At Her Home - Tasting Table

Garten never wanted to be a TV star, telling Food Network no more than once, but a mishap with her septic system made her reconsider participating in television cooking.
Food & drink
Music
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

Before Becoming a Legendary DJ, His Life Was Shaped by Streetball

Bobbito García is a multifaceted individual who has significantly influenced basketball culture, sneaker trends, and music.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Powerful Consistency of Mail Delivery

In Grant's telling, postal workers bring order and predictability to a country that can feel like it's unraveling, especially during crises that starkly illustrate how reliant we are on the federal bureaucracy.
Digital life
fromVulture
3 months ago

Let's Check In on Scheana Shay for Once

"With public personas, it's essential to have control over your narrative, and sharing my story in my memoir feels empowering, despite the mixed emotions about the affair."
Television
Television
fromBustle
3 months ago

Scheana Shay Reveals How A Staged 'Pump Rules' Scene Almost Went Wrong

One scene in Vanderpump Rules was staged involving Scheana Shay, Lala Kent, and Brock Davies during the Season 9 finale.
fromSlate Magazine
3 months ago

I Wrote a Book About Being a Dad. Pro-Israel Protesters Showed Up to Object. I Asked Them Why.

The book, 'Becoming Baba', chronicles the experience of having Muslim parents and raising Muslim children in a frequently hostile environment, reflecting the author’s personal heartbreak over incidents in Gaza.
Social justice
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review muddled take on race, politics and class

Thomas Chatterton Williams critiques both the Trumpian right and its leftwing critics, identifying himself as a freethinker while acknowledging his own liberal beliefs.
fromIndependent
3 months ago

John Downing: Why exiled king Juan Carlos's memoir has Spanish society on edge

Juan Carlos, once viewed as a democratic reformer, faced scandals that led to his abdication in 2014, leading to his exile in Abu Dhabi since 2020.
Miscellaneous
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Remember When by Fiona Phillips review an unsparing insight into early-onset Alzheimer's

Fiona Phillips details her journey with early-onset Alzheimer's, showcasing its impact on her life and that of her family.
fromIndependent
3 months ago

Restaurateur Keith McNally on 'rude' Patti Smith, his two strokes, and Sally Rooney: 'One of the best contemporary writers in the world'

To me, Instagram is nothing but a vast repository of self-deception. A modern-day Barbie's world, where one in a thousand own up to their shortcomings. I joined Instagram to piss these people off.
Digital life
Books
fromAnOther
3 months ago

Five Books That Inspired Slutty Cheff's New Memoir, Tart

Slutty Cheff's memoir 'Tart' combines the sensuality of food and sex, chronicling experiences in London's culinary scene.
fromFast Company
3 months ago

20 years ago, this Fast Company editor was given 18 months to live. Here's what his cancer journey has taught him about work and life

Receiving a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer, created a life-altering reality for Jon Gluck, pushing him toward coping through work.
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