The most highly-anticipated book of the year, Going Rogue by former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is about to hit shelves, and the critics have weighed in. Is it scandalous? Insightful? Coherent? The WSJ wraps the coverage.
Autobiographies
Fiction is dead; long live the autobiography!
What’s with the spate of tell-alls, autobiographies and memoirs lately? According to a new book, it’s all about the “democratisation” of authorship: everyone has a story to tell, and it’s now easier than ever to tell it.
Andrew Agassi: no more heroes anymore?
Five-times Grand Slam champ Andre Agassi’s new autobiography is getting lots of attention for all the wrong reasons, with revelations he used crystal meth, took speed before matches, and his ’90s mullet was a fake. Neil Walker laments another sporting hero’s fall from grace.
How to pen an autobiography in one day
Inspired by news that Sarah Palin wrote her upcoming memoirs in only four months, Joel Stein attempts to go one better, and write his in one day… with the help of a ghostwriter. Just like Palin.
Just in time for Christmas: the Sarah Palin memoirs
Good news: Sarah Palin (or her ghostwriter) has finished writing her new 400-page book, Going Roque, earlier than expected — just in time to land in Christmas stockings everywhere.
Guy Rundle: Tony Abbott’s honeymoon, as told by Tony Abbott
Guy Rundle shares his favourite passages from Tony Abbott’s new autobiography, Battlelines.
War and Peace (but mostly war): Cheney signs a book deal
Former US VP Dick Cheney has signed on with a book publisher to pen his memoirs, in a deal said to be worth at least $2 million.
