When Prince Harry recently published his memoir, “Spare,” I stopped to think about how many celebrities publish memoirs. We hear so much about them and their lives as they publish them, usually with a lot of marketing from talk shows. I’ve read a fair number of them: Nora Ephron’s “I Feel Bad About My Neck,” Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father,” Diane Keaton’s “Then Again,” Patti Davis’s “The Way I See It,” and Julia Phillips’ “You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again.”
That’s a short list and out of those memoirs I enjoyed those by Nora Ephron and Julia Phillips.
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