Comedian and Emmy-nominated TV and film writer Chelsea Devantez joins our first Stacks episode of 2023. Her Celebrity Book Club podcast breaks down celeb memoirs with a roster of Chelsea’s funniest friends. We get into how Chelsea started the show, and why she wants to spend time lifting up the stories of the rich and famous. We also ask ourselves why we love to hate these books so much.
The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis. We will discuss the book on January 25th with Chelsea Devantez.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis
- About ‘Not Dead Yet’ TV Series (abc.com)
- Dead to Me (Netflix)
- The Problem with Jon Stewart (Apple TV+)
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Harry & Meghan (Netflix)
- My Life So Far by Jane Fonda
- Delta Style by Delta Burke
- Open Book by Jessica Simpson
- Inside Out by Demi Moore
- Will by Will Smith
- The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala
- John Mayer
- True Love by Jennifer Lopez
- Jennifer Lopez: Halftime (Netflix)
- Horror Stories by Liz Phair
- Stay (Lisa Loeb, 1994)
- “Book Deals: Week of December 13, 2021” (Rachel Deahl, Publishers Weekly)
- My Life So Far by Jane Fonda (audiobook)
- This Time Together by Carol Burnett
- Knee Deep in Paradise by Brett Butler
- My Life as a Woman by Roseanne Barr
- Me by Katharine Hepburn
- All the Women in My Brain by Betty Gilpin
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
- Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
- “Ep. 222 Living in Between with Elamin Abdelmahmoud” (The Stacks)
- Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (audiobook)
- Guru by RuPaul
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Kindred (FX)
- I’m No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts by Kristin Chenoweth
- Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
- Tommyland by Tommy Lee
- Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
- Call Me Anne by Anne Heche
- Call Me Crazy by Anne Heche
- Harry Styles
- The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano
- I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- The Hollywood Complex (Dylan Nelson and Dan Sturman, 2011)
- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
- I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)
- Ariana Grande
- Open Book by Jessica Simpson (audiobook)
- Finding Me by Viola Davis (audiobook)
- Will by Will Smith (audiobook)
- “Jada Pinkett Smith set to publish ‘no holds barred’ memoir” (Marianne Garvey, CNN)
- Will Smith–Chris Rock slapping incident
- Thriftbooks.com
- Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Vroman’s Bookstore (Pasadena, CA)
- The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)
- Lost Books (Pasadena, CA)
- The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson
- My First Five Husbands… and the Ones Who Got Away by Rue McClanahan
- Angela Lansbury’s Positive Moves by Angela Lansbury
- Tales from the Dugout by Mike Shannon
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
- Dolly Parton, Songteller by Dolly Parton
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- I, Tina by Tina Turner
- Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly
- We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
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