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And someone at IndieReader directed me to a wondrously weird memoir by Robert McKnight: "The Golden Years.
While Tony Blair's rather weird memoir contains a line at the end saying he has always had "a passion bigger than politics, which is religion," that shows only what an oddity Blair was in his own country.
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Punk's media moment passed by the early 80's, but it helped inspire a new counterculture, sketched by the music critic Ann Powers in her pop-culture memoir, "Weird Like Us".
Other biography nominations are Graham Farmelo's account of the life of Paul Dirac, an outstanding yet extremely weird physicist; William Fiennes' memoir of growing up in a magical, moated castle, The Music Room; and Caroline Moorehead's Dancing to the Precipice about the fabulously named 18th-century Versailles noblewoman Lucie de la Tour du Pin.
The acclaimed Canadian hip-hop artist, producer, and radio host is speaking to me via Skype about his new memoir Wicked and Weird: The Amazing Tales of Buck 65, unaware that he's just made the understatement of the century.
In her memoir, "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)" (Touchstone: $25.99), actress Felicia Day admits that she's often referred to as "that quirky chick in that one science-fiction show" or as "usually the lone female on lists of prominent nerds". But she's much more than that.
"Memoir is a very weird genre for a reporter because you're basically investigating your own memories," he said.
Part cultural history, part personal memoir and part sociological theory, "Weird Like Us" is a rebuff to anyone who thinks bohemia is over.
But "Weird Like Us" is, thank God, no navel-gazing memoir.
His latest book, Party of One, is a memoir about music, coming out, and feeling weird.
May 29 2015 Stahl, the author of the addiction memoir "Permanent Midnight," celebrates the publication of his new book, "OG Dad: Weird Shit Happens When You Don't Die Young".
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