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What is the Meaning of Mariah Carey? In Her Self-Absorbed Memoir Everyone Else is To Blame, Starting with Her Mom and Tommy Mottola
What is "The Meaning of Mariah Carey"? It's a ridiculous "memoir," quite short with big type and wide margins. In it, Mariah Carey --...
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Sales Bust: Donald Trump Jr’s Book, “Liberal Privilege” Drop to Number 535 on Amazon, No One Seems to Want to It
Nothing has "triggered" sales for Donald Trump Jr's latest writing sample.
The feral son who seeks approval on a daily basis published a book called...
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Barack Obama’s Memoir Coming Two Weeks After Election: 768 Page “A Promised Land” Will Have Second Volume Later
Barack Obama is finally publishing his memoir and it's only part one!
"A Promised Land" is coming November 17th, two weeks after the election. A...
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RIP Erudite, Curmudgeonly Stanley Crouch, 74, A Friend, a Hero, A Culture Critic and Jazz Man
There are a lot of good obits today for Stanley Crouch. I liked the ones on NPR and the NY Times, and Leonard Greene's...
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Books: Mary Trump’s Family Tell All Sells 1.1 Million Copies, Donald Trump Jr’s Self Published Rant Isn’t Being Counted by BookScan
There are now more books about Donald Trump by friends, enemies, and journalists on all sides of the story that they could fill a...
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Former Gossip Columnist Regrets: That Time He Didn’t Report How Tom Cruise Fell Down the Stairs at Prada in SoHo
Summer reading: finally catching up with Ben Widdicombe's "Gatecrasher," named for his long ago column in the NY Daily News. It's full of great...
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Bestselling “Passages” Writer Gail Sheehy Tragic Irony: She Wrote About Isolating and Beating COVID A Week Before She Died
There's some confusion about how and why bestselling writer of "Passages," Gail Sheehy, 83, died day before yesterday, August 24th.
Her daughter, Maura, said in...
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RIP Gail Sheehy, Best Selling Author of “Passages,” Famed Writer Was Also Wife of New York Magazine Founder Clay Felker
Sad news: Reports on Facebook that bestselling author and famed writer Gail Sheehy has died at age 83. Her book, "Passages," in 1976, was...