In the book, the daughter of director Vincente Minnelli and singer and actress Judy Garland, Minnelli, now 80, recounts her stage career, four marriages and struggles with addiction and alcoholism. The New York Times called it 'a familiar reminder that growing up in showbiz can lead to awards and adulation, but also to heartache.'
It takes one cross-country plane, a train, a ferry, then another hour or so by car to reach the writer Lindy West. I had read plenty about how remote her home is, but only by sitting shotgun with West in her girlfriend's maroon Hyundai Elantra did I understand just how far she was from even a gas station.
A veteran war correspondent, Gopal earned finalist nods for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for what the Pulitzer jury described as his "vivid, haunting and courageous" first book, No Good Men Among the Living, which conveyed the fallout of the war in Afghanistan through the personal stories of just a few Afghans.
I opened this book thinking, Eh, I'm a little bit of a people pleaser, sure. By the end, so much of my life and my choices had been explained to me in the most graceful, non-shameful way. I can't recommend Clayton's walk through the fawn response enough. It's educational, yes, but if you've ever been ashamed of how you handle conflict, this is a very healing read.
My husband and I had two children and lost them both. Vincent, 16, enjoyed baking, while 19-year-old James was a brilliant linguist and a deep thinker. Shortly before Vincent's death, Li had written a memoir about her depressive episodes which led to her own suicide attempts.
In 2022, Jennette McCurdy released her memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, a brutally honest portrait of her life as a former child star, her battle with eating disorders, and, as the title would suggest, her rather complicated relationship with her mother.
On Instagram, under the handle @will.this.make.me.happy, she posted a photo of a craggy yellow pastry that fit perfectly in her palm. "No. Buttermilk scones with lemon zest do not alleviate anxiety," she captioned it. On December 4th, she posted again, declaring, beneath an image of a sugar-ringed cookie perched between her thumb and forefinger, "No. Pecan shortbread did not help me reconcile my massive ego with my meager sense of self."
A writer is a kind of magician. Their job is to create living, three-dimensional people out of the ordinary stuff of ink and paper. This is no easy task, because readers can't literally hear, touch, or observe a character. Everything that defines a human being in real life-the physical space they occupy, or how they smell, feel, and sound-is stripped away, replaced by description. But authors have one major, mystical advantage: They can show you what's happening inside of someone's brain.
Two fiction books about good friends coming from different circumstances. Two biographies of people whose influence on American culture is, arguably, still underrated. One Liza Minnelli memoir. These are just a handful of books coming out in the first few months of 2026 that we've got our eye on. Fiction 'Autobiography of Cotton' by Cristina Rivera Garza, Feb. 3 Garza, who won a Pulitzer in 2024 for memoir/autobiography, actually first published Autobiography of Cotton back in 2020, but it's only now getting an English translation.
On the night of Boxing Day 2021, my dad's body was found near a Cardiff hostel. His death, at 55, was as sudden as it was not. For years, alcoholism had been changing the shape of his heart. He died less than a mile from his old office; top law firm, equity partner. Four miles from our once tight-knit home in a leafy neighbourhood.
"Through playing her, I was able to get the courage to make the changes that I wanted to make in my life, to really go after the version of my life that I felt like I was meant to live. And when the show came out, I became acutely aware of women all over the world that were feeling very similarly,"
It is embedded in how I live. Specifically, writing everything that I dream of, and everything that fails me, all of the emotional reality. Often, there are things I'm afraid to say, and then I put them in my writing, and they're said. Then I can say it! I can read it in the book, and people aren't that shocked by it. Often, what people are shocked by has nothing to do with what I'm afraid of.
"Cake Eater" chronicles Radke's journey through sobriety, grief and public scrutiny, as well as his search for joy "in a world that equates fun with alcohol." The memoir also offers an unfiltered look behind the scenes of reality television and how pursuing authenticity reshaped his life. "It was not easy to go back and dig in and talk about stuff that's painful and tragic and difficult," Radke told press earlier this month.
Trans trailblazer Dylan Mulvaney is no stranger to being iconic, and her birthday gives us the perfect excuse to celebrate her. The stage star has gone from strength to strength after she first entered the scene with her now-infamous "Days of Girlhood" social media series documenting her transition. Today (29 December) marks the icon's 29th birthday, and in honour of her role as a trans activist, we've highlighted some of her best moments from this year. Her debut book Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, which is a collection of journal entries from her first-year transition, was released on 11 March this year.
I write incessantly in my journal. It is easier for me to write my truth than to speak it. I like to imagine that I'm working toward writing a memoir concerning something no one really knows about (so, a confession, an offering of truth). My worry: Am I really a writer, or is this consuming project just my form of therapy, a desire to show my real self and beg for acceptance
Mainstream comedy is frankly in a bit of a lull right now. Sitcoms and theatrical comedy movie are disappearing, few comic novels are getting published, and comedy podcasts are just comedians interviewing other comedians. It's perhaps of little surprise, then, that the best nonfiction comedy books released in 2025 were focused on the past - comedy's history, themes, and steadfast examples of greatness and insight.
Jillian Lauren has filed for divorce for from Weezer bassist Scott Shriner after 20 years of marriage, according to TMZ. She cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for their separation. Back in April of this year, Lauren was arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly firing a gun at police who were pursuing three suspects in a hit-and-run chase in Los Angeles.
My earliest reading memory I was six, and in the lounge in my first home in Manchester. I was sitting cross-legged on the grey carpet, in 1977, when I finished reading whichever of Enid Blyton's brilliant Secret Seven mysteries contains the mind-blowing (genuinely, for a six-year-old) twist that Emma Lane turns out to be a road and not a person.
"In the way that Jonathan Franzen's early family epics and Ann Patchett's family dramas burrow into you, Buckeye will become a part of you. As the characters evolve over the years, you'll root for their happiness, cry out for their pain, and forget that this is just a novel. With the family unit as its beating heart, Buckeye is a triumphant and timeless novel that you won't want to end." - Al Woodworth, Amazon editor
Britney Spears' ex has been accused of cashing in on his relationship with the pop star by revealing jaw-dropping details about their rollercoaster courtship and marriage in a new memoir In 2004, Kevin Federline was one of the most talked-about and recognisable men in the world. Catapulted into the public eye from relative oblivion, the Californian-born dancer married Britney Spears after three months of dating in September of that year, while his ex-partner was pregnant with his second child (the couple's own two sons, Preston and Jayden, arrived in September 2005 and September 2006 respectively).
Then I quickly realized, yeah, trying to tell stories about this history in 200-word bits didn't make any sense,
From Soundgarden's humble beginnings manifesting grunge in Seattle's beer-soaked punk clubs to their revered status today as rock icons, the band's journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. In A Screaming Life, founding member and guitar god Kim Thayil goes backstage to introduce the band that fearlessly pushed the boundaries of rock, invented a new genre, and amassed fervent fans from every corner of the world.
Anyone wanting to read an advance copy of Miriam O'Callaghan's hotly anticipated memoir was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising not to reveal what was in it pre-publication. This is standard practice in publishing, though in the case of Life, Work, Everything it is hard to fathom why it was deemed necessary, since there is very little here that anyone could have revealed even had they wanted to.
