2023: The year of the celebrity memoir

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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2023 has been huge for the celebrity memoir game: Britney Spears, Prince Harry and Jada Pinkett Smith are just a few of the many A-listers who dropped bestsellers. But which memoirs should you actually read? To help parse through the pages, Brittany Luse is joined - once again - by Celebrity Memoir Book Club hosts Ashley Hamilton and Claire Parker. They each share their favorite memoirs of the year and discuss what these books reveal about the machinations of fame.

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0:17.0	Hello hello I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
0:25.3	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. I love celebrity memoirs. They can be glamorous and full of gossip or phenomenal time capsules of a
0:46.4	bygone era. And a select few are impressively written stories that tell us something
0:51.5	deeper about the construction of fame and celebrity.
0:55.1	And 2023 was a big year for celebrity memoirs.
0:58.6	There were the heavy hitters like Brittany Spears and Barbara Streisand, but also Julia Fox, John Stamos, and Laura Dern.
1:05.3	Can I say?
1:06.3	What?
1:06.8	We started the year with Prince Harry from Spare,
1:08.9	and I just realized that.
1:10.0	I mean, he said.
1:11.0	And I just went, this year has been too long.
1:12.3	We must get to the next one.
1:13.7	I can't take it anymore.
1:15.1	We had Paris Hilton, we had Pam Anderson.
1:17.0	Oh my gosh, Werner Herzog?
1:19.4	It was non-stop, non-stop.
1:21.8	If you're a loyal listener, you'll recognize those voices. It's
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