Mr. Edwards has a long way to go to catch up with Mrs. Clinton in the memoir-publishing department: His advance from Simon & Schuster for a "book and audio contract to publish an as yet untitled memoir" was listed as $7,500.
The memoir, with a list price of $24.99, has roots in Ms. Quinn's close-knit political circle: Josh Isay, her chief campaign strategist, introduced Ms. Quinn to her literary agent.
Trebincevic's memoir The Bosnia List chronicles his experience as a child during the Bosnian War, his family's exile, and his trip back accompanied by his father and brother, looking for answers.
His memoir THE BOSNIA LIST, coauthored with Jewish journalist Susan Shapiro, will be published by Penguin in February 2014.
Kenan Trebincevic, a physical therapist in Manhattan and the author of the memoir "The Bosnia List," recently published by Penguin Books.
In addition to the chick lit, mommy lit, and vampire lit for sale in bookstores across the country, we'll soon be able to add "quiche lit," food-inspired novels and memoirs, to the list, including "I Loved, I Lost, I made Spaghetti: A Memoir".
What other memoir has "loneliness" listed in the index?
Avatar Press has adapted short stories by Alan Moore, and I bet we'll see some graphic memoirs on the list as they are released.
Unlike such lists in the United States, which tend to be mixed bags heavy on political polemic, popular sociology and inspirational memoir, the British lists are dominated by one kind of book alone, the celebrity autobiography.
In her 2011 memoir "Bossypants," Tina Fey lists the body parts required of an exemplary twenty-first-century woman: "Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass," all the way down to "the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits".
He finished the last book on the list — a memoir by Alig, which he liked — in January.
