Literature: Last News

It's the age of the celebrity memoir and DJ, producer, and all-around musical genius Mark Ronson is next to release a book about the story of his life. He's getting specific though, focusing on the chapter of his life coming up as a DJ in the '90s of New York City in his forthcoming book aptly titled, NIGHT PEOPLE: How to Be a DJ in 90's New York City.

Arriving, appropriately enough, in the wake of Mother’s Day, comes a new book toasting the mother of all Bad Mother movies, Mommie Dearest.Ashley Hoff’s With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic offers chapter after entertaining chapter digging into the making of the notorious 1981 drama starring Faye Dunaway, tearing down rose bushes, bearing walls, and some of the scenery as Hollywood film legend Joan Crawford.Based on the eponymous best-selling memoir by Christina Crawford, Joan’s adopted daughter, detailing years of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her Oscar-winning mother, Mommie Dearest was supposed to be a serious exposé of child abuse. Somehow, that’s not the movie that director Frank Perry and producer Frank Yablans wound up making, as is vividly chronicled in Hoff’s book.“Nobody sets out to make a failure,” says the author and Hollywood historian, whose previous book Match Game 101: A Backstage History of Match Game took a behind-the-scenes look at a different camp phenomenon.

Arlo Parks' lyrics have always had a tactile and intimate nature with the London-born songwriter often claiming that her songs began life as poems. It is perhaps no surprise, then, to learn that she will release a poetry collection later this year. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine will be published on September 12 and arrives after Parks inked a book deal with Harper Collins.

Avid reader Dua Lipa is putting her love for a good book to use with her own book club. The Service95 Book Club is part of the U.K.

An internet theory has sent an untitled non-fiction book to the top of the online preorder charts after it was rumored to be a memoir written by Taylor Swift, Variety reports. “4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023,” a book that is reportedly very much not written by Swift, is currently No.

Black Thought, the renowned emcee for The Roots born Tariq Trotter, has announced a memoir via Variety. The Upcycled Self will be published on November 14 through One World; preorders are open now. The book is described as “a beautifully bluesy story of a boy genius’s coming of age” in a statement from the publisher.

Gretchen Felker-Martin writes horror fiction that sticks with the reader like a plague boil sent by the divine. Her new book Manhunt is stomach-churningly violent, but as with all great horror works, it delivers revelation after revelation of our own nature. “You have to press [the reader’s] face to the fire,” Felker-Martin says over the phone from Massachusetts, “and show them the value in holding it there.

Mark Ronson, the hyper-successful English musician, producer, and songwriter — and the host of The FADER Uncovered podcast has announced that he'll publish his first book, 93 'Til Infinity, next year via Grand Central Publishing. Named for an iconic Souls of Mischief track and album, the book will take us back to downtown New York in the '90s, where — according to Ronson's statement to the Associated Press, "people stayed all night in the same place to dance, hustle, politic, and party like no one was watching — ascending hip hop moguls, artists, hustlers, models, posers, dancers and hard-working 9 to 5’ers all rubbing shoulders with each other." Read Next: Rick Ross on Miami, “Hustlin’,” and the art of beat selection The book will be part-memoir, detailing Ronson's experience as a DJ in the aforementioned scene, but it will also serve as a culture history of what he called (in the same press release) "the center of the music game and...

Priscilla Tolkien, the youngest child of The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, was Vice President of The Tolkien Society.Priscilla Tolkien was born in Oxford, England, where her father was a professor at the university. Her childhood teddy bear was named Bingo, and in early drafts of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R.

The 16 novels included on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist have been revealed.