Britney Spears’s ‘brave’ tell-all memoir out in October

The Woman in Me, which will cover pop star’s conservatorship experience among other topics, is set for release later this yearBritney Spears will release her tell-all memoir, The Woman in Me on 24 October, the publisher announced on Tuesday.The Woman in Me will be “a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope”, according to a press release from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which acquired the memoir in a bidding war. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2023-07-11 16:02:28 UTC ]

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Rosen to tell his Covid story in picture book form for Walker

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What a Memoir Can Reveal, Even About the Closest of Friends

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Suleika Jaouad Does Not Want to Be Your Mountaintop Sage

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The Writer as Traveler and the Gift of Prismatic Vision: An Interview with Stephanie McKenzie, by Tom Halford

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Book Review: ‘Model Citizen,’ by Joshua Mohr

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He took his British brand of satire to nightclubs, TV, film (“This Is Spinal Tap”) and National Lampoon. But a memoir led to a sex-abuse accusation. Continue reading at The New York Times

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