Episode 235 - Celebrity Memoirs

It's episode 235 and time for us to talk about Celebrity Memoirs! We discuss who counts as a celebrity, non-celebrity memoirs, creative non-fiction, memory, success, survivorship bias, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate
• Elsa Lanchester, Herself by Elsa Lanchester
• Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
• My Wonderful World Of Slapstick by Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels
• Finding Me by Viola Davis

Other Media We Mentioned

• Lessons from a Lifetime: 90 Years of Imagination and Activism by David Suzuki
• Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
• Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur
• Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• iCarly
• Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Married... with Children
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Pandora's Box
• Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
• Sherlock Jr.
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
• Awake by Jen Hatmaker
• A Truce That is not Peace by Miriam Toews
• The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You by Neko Case
• That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers

Links, Articles, and Things

• Department Store
• Hudson's Bay (department store)
• Hypermarket
• MeToo movement
• Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang Book Trailer 
• Gilean Douglas Fonds
  • Collection of digitized photos including ones from the sets of One Stolen Night, The Fortieth Door, Rupert of Hentzau, Quincy Adams Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, and this specific Hall Room Boys film. 
• Charlie Chaplin
• Tom Mix
• Laurel and Hardy
• Abbott and Costello
• Groucho Glasses
• Hays Code
  

33 Celebrity Memoirs by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo
• Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles
• She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
• A Thousand Threads by Nehneh Cherry
• Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
• Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu
• Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung
• Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
• Transcendent by Laverne Cox
• Simply More by Cynthia Erivo
• Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
• In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
• Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish
• We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
• Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Unprotected by Billy Porter
• Some New Kind of Kick by Kid Congo Powers
• Truly by Lionel Richie
• The Universal Tone: My Life by Carlos Santana
• The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya
• A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring by Omar Sharif Jr.
• The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley
• All the Way: My Life on Ice by Jordin Tootoo
• Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood by Danny Trejo
• I, Tina by Tina Turner
• Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
• Sidesplitter: How to Be From Two Worlds at Once by Phil Wang
• Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts
• Scenes from My Life by Michael K. Williams
• Cack-Handed by Gina Yashere
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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