Books We Love: No Biz Like Showbiz

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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NPR's Books We Love is a roundup of favorite books of the year, sorted and tagged to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Today, we're highlighting books about show business, including a memoir, a history of the Oscars, and a biography about two iconic film critics.

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0:00.0	Here on Pop Culture Happy Hour, you know we love to talk show business and just as much
0:09.2	we love to talk about books.
0:11.2	Naturally that means you see where this is going books about talk about
0:15.0	show business.
0:16.0	I'm Glenn Weldon.
0:17.0	And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about books about show business
0:20.0	from NPR's books we love on pop culture happy hour from NPR's Books We Love on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:24.0	Well, it is just the two of us today.
0:29.7	You may well know what books we love is but in case you don't each year
0:34.4	NPR gathers recommendations from contributors and critics and staff in all kinds of
0:39.4	genres fiction and non-fiction books for kids cookbooks memoirs there's a little bit of just about everything
0:46.7	and one of the ways you can sort is by books about showbiz so that's what we're going to talk about
0:51.2	today glen I want to go directly to your first pick.
0:54.8	Sure, my first pick.
0:56.2	I think you're familiar with this author is sure I'll join your cult by the great
1:01.0	Maria Bamford.
1:02.0	You know Maria, right?
1:03.2	Yes, I do.
1:04.3	Yeah, she's a stand-up comic, of course.
1:06.4	She's an actor. She's a writer.
1:08.0	And man, if she comes to a comedy club anywhere near you,
1:10.5	you should just go, Linda.
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