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<b>Keeley Hazell Turns the Page: Actress Releases a Memoir of Reinvention     </b>

Keeley Hazell Turns the Page: Actress Releases a Memoir of Reinvention

BooksAugust 27, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Keeley Hazell’s memoir, Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist, is more than a collection of personal essays—it’s an act of…

<b>Greg Iles, Mississippi Novelist Who Penned the <i>Natchez Burning</i> Trilogy, Dies at 64   </b>

Greg Iles, Mississippi Novelist Who Penned the Natchez Burning Trilogy, Dies at 64

Books, NewsmakersAugust 16, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Greg Iles, the Mississippi-born author whose sweeping Natchez Burning trilogy explored race, power, and buried secrets in the Deep South, has died at the age…

<b>Kid Cudi’s Memoir <i>Cudi: The Memoir</i> Offers a Raw, Unflinching Portrait of Reinvention   </b>

Kid Cudi’s Memoir Cudi: The Memoir Offers a Raw, Unflinching Portrait of Reinvention

BooksAugust 14, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

In Cudi: The Memoir, Kid Cudi delivers a raw and fearless account of a life lived at the intersection of fame, vulnerability, and survival. The…

<b>Pamela Skjolsvik & Tandy Culpepper Talk To Investigative Journo Rena Pederson About Her Nonfiction Dallas Jewel Thief Book<i>The King of Diamonds</i></b>

Pamela Skjolsvik & Tandy Culpepper Talk To Investigative Journo Rena Pederson About Her Nonfiction Dallas Jewel Thief BookThe King of Diamonds

BooksJuly 2, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

The King of Diamonds, a true-life tale, hronicles the audacious jewel-theft spree that shocked Dallas’s elite and stymied law enforcement from the late 1950s into…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Laurence Leamer about His Book <i>Capote’s Women</i> as well as the TV Adaptation <i>Capote vs. the Swans</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Laurence Leamer about His Book Capote’s Women as well as the TV Adaptation Capote vs. the Swans

Books, TVJuly 2, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Before Laurence Leamer became a best-selling author of nonfiction books, he wore many hats in widely divergent locales. Journalist in Iowa and at Newsweek. A…

<B>Tandy Culpepper Interviews Historian Donald L. Miller About His Book “Masters of the Air” And The Limited Series from Which That Best Seller Was Adapted

Tandy Culpepper Interviews Historian Donald L. Miller About His Book “Masters of the Air” And The Limited Series from Which That Best Seller Was Adapted

Books, TVMay 31, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

To say that Donald L. Miller is a brilliant academic is the understatement of all understatements. The John Henry McCracken Professor emeritus at Pennsylvania’s Lafayette…

<b>Pamela Skjolsvik and Tandy Culpepper Talk To Journalist Maggie Downs About Her Memoir <i>Braver Than You Think</i></b>

Pamela Skjolsvik and Tandy Culpepper Talk To Journalist Maggie Downs About Her Memoir Braver Than You Think

BooksApril 8, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Maggie Downs was a thirtysomething newspaper journalist who found herself at an emotional crossroads when a thought struck her: Was she telling other people’s stories…

<b>Review: Tandy Culpepper Offers Insight into Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Nicholas Kristof’s Memoir <i>Chasing Hope</i></b>

Review: Tandy Culpepper Offers Insight into Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Nicholas Kristof’s Memoir Chasing Hope

BooksDecember 11, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

Veteran New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof’s memoir Chasing Hope opens in 1997 and in harrowing fashion. He’s a passenger in a small commuter plane…

<b> Tandy Culpepper Reviews <i>Lucky Loser</i>: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created The Illusion of Success</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Reviews Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created The Illusion of Success

BooksNovember 28, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

Since Donald Trump picked up the keys to the White House nine years back, he has become the subject of a plethora of books written…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Reviews<i>War</i>: Veteran Journalist Bob Woodward’s Deep Dive Into Biden, Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu</b>

Tandy Culpepper ReviewsWar: Veteran Journalist Bob Woodward’s Deep Dive Into Biden, Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu

BooksNovember 26, 2024by Tandy Culpepper

War, veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s reportorial narrative nonfiction book, takes readers behind the scenes for an insider’s look at conflicts on three fronts: Russia’s invasion…

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