Singer, gameshow host, podcaster – the actor has built a reputation for doing it all. And with an autobiography/self-help guide coming soon, she’s out to prove there’s nothing wrong with being a jack of all tradesIn an era when social media has turned us all into products to promote, Keke Palmer is the whole damn corporation. As a one-woman multimedia, multiplatform conglomerate, the 31-year-old is starring in acclaimed movies (the Oscar-robbed stripper heist film Hustlers; Jordan Peele’s 2022 sci-fi-western-horror hybrid Nope), releasing R&B pop music (including 2020’s Virgo Tendencies, Pt II), hosting gameshows (the Jimmy Fallon-produced Password on NBC), talkshows (Just Keke on BET, plus a stint on Good Morning America) and her own podcast (Baby, This Is Keke Palmer), all the while regularly serving up sassy memes to the hungry internet hordes as casually as McDonald’s serves fries. It’s like Keke Palmer writes in the introduction to Keke Palmer’s new book Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative – in the diva-ish third-person, of course – Keke Palmer can do it all, honey!This morning, that means being in New York to record some additional dialogue on her new movie and finish the edit on a new TV show she’s producing, then squeezing in some time watching Sesame Street with her 20-month-old son, Leodis, before ducking out to find a quiet spot to continue our video chat about Master of Me – which, she says, isn’t a memoir exactly. “I think my push-up... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-02 11:55:13 UTC ]
There are times when a writer encounters the work of a contemporary at the ideal time. In my case, this writer was John Kaag and the book was his 2018 philosophical memoir Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. I had been studying philosophy in graduate school, but had left to pursue... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Ruth Whippman had three sons and a lot of questions. In her memoir “Boy Mom,” she hopes to offer parents some of the reporting she gathered on the road to understanding her children. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Pop culture feeds on romantic couplings, but we all know the truth about who keeps us alive. Our friends, what would ever we do without them? It is passionate platonic friendship that concerns Lilly Dancyger in her second book, First Love: Essays on Friendship. A collection of personal and... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-06-06 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Source Code: My Beginnings, out next year, will include ‘some of the tougher parts’ of the entrepreneur’s early lifeBill Gates has announced that he will be telling his “origin story” in a memoir due to be published next year.Source Code: My Beginnings will cover the businessman and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-06-04 16:02:08 UTC ]
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Reading Anna Akbari’s memoir of online manipulation, you think you’ve seen it all — then you keep reading. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Two interlocking thrillers, demonic possession in the suburbs, a Cambodian memoir told through food, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-06-03 15:00:00 UTC ]
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“As I became more entrenched in the White nationalist movement, I gained more power to cause more harm to people and society in ways I came to deeply regret.” R. Derek Black on the extreme ideology of their upbringing and how young White nationalists are programmed to hate. | Lit Hub Memoir “I... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-30 10:30:30 UTC ]
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A tribute to Paul Auster, featuring Siri Hustvedt, Don DeLillo, JM Coetzee, and more. | Lit Hub “I’ve had to forgive myself for what I chose not to see. For choosing myself.” Nina St. Pierre on understanding and accepting a schizophrenic mother. | Lit Hub Memoir James Shapiro on Willa Cather and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Caleb Carr, a military historian and bestselling author of "The Alienist," made his last book a touching memoir of life and love with a feline companion. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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This memoir by a gay Appalachian man is about reckoning with a homophobic family but one full of love, forgiveness, and understanding. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-05-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
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The events will showcase writers and speakers from countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa to UK audiences, and feature up-and-coming UK writers selected as part of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 list.This specially selected event series brings together our work with the... Continue reading at British Council global
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I had a conversation recently with a friend whose debut memoir is coming out soon, about the dread he feels at the idea of his father reading his book. I think pretty much every memoirist faces a version of this critical moment—when we have to face the fact that all of the vulnerable, private... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Poets write some of the best memoirs, and this one will have you feeling like you're in each of these cities. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-05-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
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AudioFile recommends 10 excellent new audiobooks for spring, including masterful new works from Hanif Abdurraqib, Percival Everett, and more. Whether you’re looking for a memoir told in the author’s own voice or a fascinating novel performed by professional narrators, you’ll find something... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2024-05-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Paul Scheer's memoir-in-essays, 'Joyful Recollections of Trauma,' centers largely around the abuse he and his mother suffered at the hands of his stepfather. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-05-21 10:00:29 UTC ]
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When my daughter was a year old, my mother handed me a worn-out copy of Pearl S. Buck’s The Child Who Never Grew (1950). The act of giving me this book felt significant, like an inheritance that she passed on to me. She, as the mother of a child with disabilities, passed it on to […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-20 08:55:53 UTC ]
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Yesterday, the iconic Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna published a memoir with Ecco/HarperCollins. And Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk is already being touted as an “electric, searing” history from one of rock’s biggest icons. Unfortunately, the book has some competition. From a nefarious bevy... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-15 16:58:59 UTC ]
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The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Noé Álvarez (Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico) Anna Dorn (Perfume & Pain) Abby Geni (The Body Farm) Aimee Nezhukumatathil... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-14 08:56:57 UTC ]
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“I had assumed my mother had written a novel about real estate—after all the title was A Hot Property…” Kate Feiffer on reading her mother’s x-rated novel and considering female-authored erotica as a form of social critique. | Lit Hub Memoir Jessica Shattuck recommends a reading list of of the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-13 10:30:32 UTC ]
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Atria lands a memoir by ‘Ted Lasso’ costar Brendan Hunt; Viking takes Lindsay Owens’s exploration of price gouging, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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