With the publication of Prince Harry's barn-burning new book, Spare, it's time to take a deep dive into the fecund world of celebrity memoirs. Whether they're light-hearted collections of essays (Bossypants; Cinema Speculation), dishy tell-alls (You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again; The Vanity Fair Diaries), or searing intimate portraits (Open; Greenlights), these memoirs bring us closer to famous people that are seemingly a different breed. Below, listed in no particular order, are thirty of our all-time favorites. Pass the popcorn.
With the publication of Prince Harry's barn-burning new book, Spare, it's time to take a deep dive into the fecund world of celebrity memoirs. Whether they're light-hearted collections of essays (Bossypants; Cinema Speculation), dishy tell-alls (You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again; The Vanity Fair Diaries), or searing intimate portraits (Open; Greenlights), these memoirs bring us closer to famous people that are seemingly a different breed. Below, listed in no particular order, are thirty of our all-time favorites. Pass the popcorn. |
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Let's just be honest with each other here. |
| People who work, visit, and serve time at the notorious "House of Dead Men" never forget the horrors of their first day. Here, they tell Esquire about fighting for their lives behind bars. |
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Bret Easton Ellis is back. In this excerpt from his first novel in over a decade, the author returns to his beloved Los Angeles, where privileged teenagers collide with a serial killer stalking the city:
There was a distraction, a flaw in the paradisiacal canvas of the summer of 1981: the disappearance of a girl leaving a party on the outskirts of Encino in late July. There was very little reported about the disappearance at first and none of us knew her—she might have stayed a rumor or what would later be known as an urban myth, teenage girl disappears from party never to be seen again—but she was soon connected to two other cases, one from the summer of 1980 and another in January of 1981, and after Julie Selwyn's body was discovered at the end of September, it was revealed that the victims resembled each other and there were details about their deaths that connected them as well. |
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Presenting yourself professionally in a, well, professional setting should never be forgotten. |
| Trump's immigration policy descended from the one used during WWII to keep Jews fleeing Germany from coming to the U.S. |
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Truman Capote's "La Côte Basque," originally published in the November 1975 issue of Esquire, was meant to serve as the first taste from his upcoming masterpiece about the inner circles of high society women. That novel, eventually called Answered Prayers, wouldn't publish until after the writer's death, but the passage became famous for the scandals it brought. Available in full, below, it contains insensitive descriptions of beauty and body standards. |
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