Part confessional memoir, part industry commentary, the work was primarily aimed at the line cooks, waiters and bartenders that inhabited the writer's New York working life.
The book is equal parts memoir and industry advice, and it wastes no time getting to 2 Live Crew's essence: in the first few pages, he writes about how "girls got fucked, and sucked, and covered in nut [onstage] as the 2 Live shows got raunchier and raunchier".
But in a memoir-hungry industry these old rockers hardly need telling.
Beyond the breakdown of censorship, Rosset offers some of the usual fare of a publishing industry memoir, including writers-behaving-badly anecdotes and reminiscences of friendships with particular authors.
Corden's film career also continues with the forthcoming Begin Again, in which he plays a British busker on the streets of New York alongside Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Cee-Lo Green, and in Kill Your Friends, an adaptation of John Niven's scabrous music industry memoir.
THE ARTS The Books of The Times review on Wednesday, about "The Soundtrack of My Life" by Clive Davis and "Hitmaker" by Tommy Mottola, music industry memoirs that cover topics including the genesis of some popular songs, referred incorrectly to Billie Holiday's career.
There have been numerous memoirs, a cottage industry's worth, on bipolar disorder (Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation comes to mind).
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These are tough times in the publishing industry for memoirs, since several books recently have been partly, if not completely, discredited.
