Showing results for "Glitter" in Biographies & Memoirs

Em Rusciano has some stories to tell! In the space of a few short years, she quit breakfast radio, birthed her third child and staged a sold-out tour across the country – all before being hurled headfirst into the existential crisis of lockdowns. She felt everything at full volume: the burnout, the joy, the rage ... and a deeply inconvenient urge to get into craft.

While working together at a Los Angeles boutique, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor became fast and furious friends over the impossibility of finding the perfect T-shirt. Following their vision of comfortable, fitted T-shirts, they set up shop in Gela’s one-bedroom Hollywood apartment with $200 and one rule: Whatever they did, they both had to be obsessed by it. Pam and Gela eventually sold their company to Liz Claiborne for $50 million, but not before they created a whole new genre of casual clothing that came to define California cool.

The first book to quilt the spirit of a wildly successful international clothing brand among the scraps of childhood trauma, Glitter Saints is the story of Robin Brown, creator of Magnolia Pearl. It’s a mining of tragedy for the kind of magic that creates and sustains—a sharp-eyed, soft-hearted, stubborn hope that’s the rarest raw material.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s...

In the summer of ‘22, two men were found dead in an apparent murder/suicide. One rich, one poor, both desperately clinging to a long doomed love. The police tied it up and neatly closed the case, but 3 years later new evidence and old feelings were stirred up that broke it wide open again. This is the story of what happens when you scratch away a gold façade and find the truth underneath. This is all that glitters.

In search of lost glitter is a memoir of love and loss written in many stories, many only 100-words long. It is about how an ordinary and unremarkable life was turned upside down when Sarah lost her husband in 2010.

The star of Bravo’s breakout scripted comedy Odd Mom Out shares her razor-sharp wit and backhanded wisdom in a deeply observed and outrageously funny collection of musings, lists, essays, and outrages. From her unique lingo (things don’t simply frighten her, they “M. Night Shyamalan her...

I'm Ivy of the Les Vixens, host of Tea & Glitter. I'm a lesbian burlesque performer dedicated to creating safe spaces, empowering queer babes, and sharing the glitter grind. Come hang out with me while I spill the tea & give you that gay girl glitter on how to live a more peaceful, productive, and pretty life.

Who is Briana Grace Thompson? She's a sassy southern gal who likes to talk about her latest antics as a wife, mother, Bible-believer and obsessive crafter. Sometimes she gets a little mixed up, but she has a good heart. Please consider supporting this content on Patreon. It will enable me to continue creating wacky content like this. https://www.patreon.com/BrianaGraceThompson

On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried in the wine cellar of a Victorian mansion in Old Louisville. James Carroll, shot and stabbed the year before, has lain for seven months in a plastic storage bin - his temporary coffin. Homeowner Jeffrey Mundt and his boyfriend, Joseph Banis, point the finger at each other in what locals dub The Pink Triangle Murder.

Besoin de légèreté, de rires et d’histoires qu’on ne raconte qu’entre potes ? Bienvenue dans Passe à la coloc, un podcast né de nos soirées en coloc'. Le concept est simple : chaque épisode tourne autour d’une thématique, et on invite des personnes à nous raconter leurs meilleures (ou pires) anecdotes. Mais attention, ici, tout reste anonyme ! Chaque invité choisit un nom de catcheur et sa “prise de finition” pour se présenter. Préparez-vous à découvrir des histoires improbables, des situations cocasses et des confidences. Que ce soit des fous rires incontrôlables ou...

In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reed’s groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary and recalls its influence on his coming of age and coming out through glam rock. In November...