Celebrity Memoir Book Club

Celebrity Memoir Book Club

New York comedians Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton are reading celebrity memoirs so you don't have to. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episodes

July 8, 2025 90 mins
If you’re someone who thinks social media is super evil and Facebook heavily influenced the 2016 election and now most of the world’s leaders are in the pocket of Mark Zuckerburg… you need to take your tinfoil hat off and read the TRUTH. Because it will confirm all those things. Sarah Wynn-Williams is a lawyer and one of the early members of Facebook’s global policy team and she’s even more horrified about all that stuff than you a...
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In the aftermath of her breakup from Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon tells her story. She won’t really get into her relationship but if you want to know why everyone’s always pissed at Courtney Love this is the book for you! BRAND NEW SUMMER MERCH https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/collections/all If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a meetup 101 packet to help you plan! Keep up with all the la...
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June 24, 2025 72 mins
Take a look at the shoes on your feet do you know who cooked them up????? There’s a chance it was the one and only Steve Madden. The legendary shoe brand is kind of just a guy who loves to look at feet and make you the shoe of your dreams as fast as humanly possible. Did he invent fast fashion for shoes?? Who’s to say! Did he do illegal money stuff?? Definitely yes! But he did his time and now he’s churning out fresh pumps once aga...
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June 17, 2025 74 mins
What does it take to be one of the world’s best soccer players??? Goodness in your heart and also drive. Olympic and World Cup soccer champ Megan Rapinoe tells us everything she knows about fighting for the gold and also fighting for equality because she does both a lot.  BRAND NEW SUMMER MERCH https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/collections/all If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a meetup 101 packet to help you pl...
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June 10, 2025 71 mins
Would you call this a memoir? Only if you’re feelin loose like a modern woman!!! Aziz Ansari wrote a book, not about himself, but about love. He tackles tough topics like is dating harder now because of apps and social media?? Does reading a very boring book make you more or less likely to find love?? BRAND NEW SUMMER MERCH https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/collections/all THE FINAL STOP ON OUR TOUR  June 14: New Yor...
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June 3, 2025 85 mins
Do you remember Kelly Oxford? If you had twitter in the early 2010’s dig through your brain archives. Surely you remember the funniest Canadian mom on twitter turned LA scenester turned book writer turned show writer turned divorced person who crashes out on Instagram all the time?    BRAND NEW SUMMER MERCH https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/collections/all THE FINAL STOP ON OUR TOUR  June 14: New York  Help us plan...
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It’s Nora Ephron anthology week! We took a look at two of her essay collections, I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing to remember what proper storytelling looks like.  THE FINAL STOP ON OUR TOUR  June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a meetup 101 packet to help you plan! Keep up with all the latest:  https://celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ Join our Geneva Community to chat with the other wo...
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Who’s that girl doin yoga next to Alec Baldwin?? It’s Hilaria and she’s ready to tell her side of the story. And only her side. You won’t get most of the story. But you will find out who she feels wronged her in their coverage.  With special guests Eliza and Julia from Binchtopia!!!! WE’RE BACK ON TOUR May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a meetup 101 packet to he...
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May 13, 2025 105 mins
Have you ever wondered how the hell Beyoncé and Solange Knowles found their ways to becoming the most talented people on the planet earth? It’s because they were raised and styled by Tina.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a meetup 101 packet to help you plan! Keep up with all the latest:  https://celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ Join our Genev...
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May 6, 2025 79 mins
Conclave starts tomorrow lets go girls!!! This week the gang goes Catholic as we dive into the life of the recently departed sweetie pie Pope Francis. From his early days of doing science to his later years of writing letters and popeing he was an interesting character and a twist on the standard popal situation.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMBC meetup her...
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Warm up your fists of Fury a new memoirist has entered the villa!!!! Tommy Fury is a boxer and reality star who takes his boxing soooo seriously while the rest of the world takes his reality stardom much more seriously.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR May 1: Chicago  May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a meetup 101 packet to help you plan! Keep up with all the latest:  https://...
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April 22, 2025 87 mins
There’s a scorching hot tune burning at 182 degrees- the only way to cool it down is with an incredibly chill and normal story. Enter Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus. A founding member of one of the biggest bands of the 00s, he’s also just a guy who loves friendship.   WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 24: San Francisco  May 1: Chicago  May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMBC meetup here’s a me...
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April 15, 2025 86 mins
From page three to the centerfold of UK televisions, Katie Price is both an absolute mystery and apparently an open book. The reality star and model has written 8 memoirs and her most recent clarifies both everything and nothing. If you want to know who Katie Price is and isn’t listen on.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 24: San Francisco  May 1: Chicago  May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a...
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Diane Guerrero was barely a teenager when her family was separated by the US immigration system. She was completely disregarded by the system and managed to graduate from a performing arts school, go to college, and act in some of the biggest shows of the decade while using her voice to advocate for families in situations like hers.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 4: Toronto April 10: Philadelphia April 11: Washington DC  April 24...
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April 1, 2025 121 mins
You’re life isn’t bad you just haven’t found the right guru!!! First, become a multi millionaire and then you’re going to want to hire Jay Shetty, celebrity monk, to brush your hair and tell you it’s okay to make getting richer your only goal!!! Jay Shetty uses his experience as a monk to remind us all that it’s good to be a celebrity.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 4: Toronto April 10: Philadelphia April 11: Washington DC  April...
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March 25, 2025 99 mins
You can’t mention Sutton Foster’s several Tony Awards without talking about the blankets she crocheted along the way. Well maybe you can but Sutton wrote a memoir about the crafts she completed while becoming a Broadway legend, a Bunhead, and so much more. If you want to read a book about someone who is insanely talented and accomplished, this is it. If you just want to hear our thoughts on it, listen up.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR Ap...
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March 18, 2025 132 mins
Step inside the world of high art with art adjacent writer Sarah Hoover. The gallerist, writer, and wife of a very rich artist opens up about how motherhood is not what all the downtown moms would lead you to believe.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 4: Toronto April 10: Philadelphia April 11: Washington DC  April 24: San Francisco  May 1: Chicago  May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New York  If you want to host a CMB...
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March 11, 2025 101 mins
Before there were the Real Housewives there was royalty, there were Kennedys, and there was journalism. Carole Radziwill was married to a Kennedy cousin before the summer she tragically lost her husband and two close friends. This book is what remains.  Get 10% off all merch with the code MADNESS !!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 4: Toronto April 10: Philadelphia April 11: Washington D...
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March 4, 2025 112 mins
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it one billion times. Teen stars should write more poems. Avan Jogia, of Nickelodeon’s Victorious, opens up about what it was like to be a teenage hearthrob and how he’s continued to discover himself as an artist. I think.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 4: Toronto April 10: Philadelphia April 11: Washington DC  April 24: San Francisco  May 1: Chicago  May 16: London  May 18: Dublin June 14: New Y...
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February 25, 2025 81 mins
Imagine this: you’re sitting on an airplane next to indie darling Parker Posey and she’s about to regale you with her stories. You’re giddy with excitement. You order a double to sip on while she chats and by the time you figure out what kind of stories she’s about to tell it’s too late to take a sleeping pill.  WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 4: Toronto April 10: Philadelphia April 11: Washington DC  April 24: San Francisco  May 1:...
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