The best books on The Cult of Celebrity Fred Inglis, Social Scientist Buy now Listen now Beloved by Toni Morrison 🏆 Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Read expert recommendations “Beloved was Morrison’s fifth novel. It’s a gripping story, inspired by a famous abolitionist...
OF BOOKS, AUTHORS AND CELEBRITY IN AMERICAGail Caldwell, Globe Staff
These days, it seems as if half the books in bookstores have the word "best seller" or some variant on the cover or the flap copy, as in "the best-selling author of ..." But what does that mean? About as much as the phrase "original recipe" does on a jar of spaghe...
Like Océane, Ana (as she is known in China) is French, and lives and works in Beijing with her Chinese husband, the celebrity and actor Liu Ye 刘烨, and their children. Her son and husband attended a reality show, which brought the family to the spotlight. Mei Sifan, the daughter of...
satire or fraud and had even written on how celebrity authors had the authority to break from community norms to create an identity through their language choices (Hyland, 2008, 2010). Overall though, by describing the conventions that embody disciplinary ideologies and customs, I probably helped ...
By Emily Gould celebrity memoir Oct. 21, 2024 ‘Please Tell Me, What’s Wrong With Me?’In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino looks back on his “moon shot” of a life in Hollywood — and a few acute regrets. By Chris Stanton sexual abuse Oct. 15, 2024 Sum 41’s Deryck...
Harry Potter books 3-7 by JK Rowling View all 2 comments An Open Letter to Neil Patrick Harris October 4, 2018Books, CelebrityWhore, gay men rule Dear Mr. Patrick Harris, It is no secret that I have been a fan of yours for years, I watched Doggie Howser as a kid and was over...
a Chinese Jewish autograph trader who sets out to meet a reclusive 1950s starlet and in the process undertakes his own journey of self-discovery.The Autograph Man, which also addresses the public’sobsessionwith celebrity and popculture, received mostly positive reviews. Soon after the novel’s ...
In 2011 Ferrante, already a well-regarded international author, surged to even greater celebrity with the publication ofL’amica geniale(My Brilliant Friend). It was the first of four novels that follow narrator Elena Greco and her childhood friend—and sometime rival—Lila Cerullo. The two int...
A dangerous intimacy emerges between a French teacher and a former student who has achieved art world celebrity; the painting of a portrait upturns both their lives. from The Netherlands Sleepless Night The grande dame of Dutch literature recounts a story of romance and death punctuated by a mi...