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Jim Carrey’s New Book MEMOIRS AND MISINFORMATION On ‘The Howard Stern Show’

The Actor Jim Carrey was on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ recently where he got a chance to talk about his new book, “Memoirs & Misinformation: A Novel” (Knopf). In the first video, down below, Jim talks about the special event around the choice of the Book Cover’s image.

Here’s a few clips from the show:

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#WSB BOOK TALK: EXERCISE OF POWER, A Conversation with Robert M. Gates, Moderated by Michael Beschloss

Join us for a virtual conversation with WSB Exclusive Speaker Robert M. Gates, former United States Secretary of Defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir, “Duty”, as he discusses his latest book, “EXERCISE OF POWER: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World” (Knopf, Cover Design by Chip Kidd).

Gates shares a candid, sweeping examination of power in all its manifestations, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world. The event will be moderated by presidential historian and best-selling author Michael Beschloss.

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Visits Jim Carrey’s New Book “Memoirs and Misinformation”

The Comedian, Movie Star & Author Jim Carrey was recently honored to be a guest on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Jim was mainly there to share info about his new book, “Memoirs and Misinformation” (Knopf).

He goes into detail about the image for the cover design of the book. It’s a pretty interesting story about the false “Ballistic Missile Strike Warning in Hawaii” & how the photo was taken. The Book Designer, Chip Kidd, used this image to illustrate the cover.

Anyway, here’s the segments with Jim Carrey, check ’em out!

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BookPeople Presents: Lawrence Wright & Nicholas D. Kristof Discuss New Book, “End of October”

In this video down below, posted by Penguin Random House, the Author Lawrence Wright & Nicholas D. Kristof of BookPeople discuss Wright’s new book, “The End of October” (Knopf).

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Penguin Random House Presents: A Virtual Evening with JIM CARREY & DANA VACHON! #Knopf

Penguin Random House proudly joins forces with Books & Books @ The Studios of Key West to present Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon one and only virtual event to discuss their new novel, MEMOIRS AND MISINFORMATION.

Find the book here: https://bit.ly/memoirsandmisinformation

“None of this is real and all of it is true,” says Jim Carrey about his new novel, Memoirs and Misinformation, co-written with the author Dana Vachon. The award-winning actor and author will make his one and only virtual appearance exclusively with Books & Books, and introduced by one of America’s most beloved authors Judy Blume, in conversation with his writing partner Vachon, and moderated by Mitchell Kaplan, the owner-founder of the independently-owned bookstore Books & Books in Miami, Florida.

ABOUT THE BOOK Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but he’s also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even . . . getting fat? He’s tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage, isn’t enough to pull Carrey out of his slump. But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself–finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up! But the universe has other plans. Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our “one big soul,” Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world–apocalypses within and without.

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Conan O’Brien Promotes Jim Carrey’s Memoirs and Misinformation!

This is just a quick post to share this awesome photo of Conan O’Brien promoting Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon’s latest book, “Memoirs and Misinformation: a Novel (Published by Knopf, Book Cover Design by Chip Kidd).

Conan also added a quote, “I really enjoyed JimCarrey’s “memoir.” Like Jim, the book is wildly comic, inventive, subversive, and made primarily of compressed paper pulp.”

Thanks Conan, SO Awesome!!

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Check Out These 3 Haruki Murakami Book Cover Designers You Might Like!

Haruki Murakami

Charmaine Esmeralda, over at the MEDIUM Website, recently wrote a super-excellent article on the Book Designers who have created covers for Haruki Murakami. She does a short individual biography of Chip Kidd, John Gall & Suzanne Dean. It’s very well researched & it’s also loaded with great pictures too!

Book Cover Designs by Chip Kidd

To check it out, just CLICK HERE!!

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#BATMAN Bat Force Radio Podcast Interview with Designer CHIP KIDD

On a recent episode of the BAT FORCE RADIO Podcast they were joined by graphic designer, author, and Batman art collector Chip Kidd to talk about his comic roots, the making of books like “Batman Animated”, “Bat-Manga!” and “Batman: Death By Design”, creating the iconic Jurassic Park logo, how he acquired original pages of The Dark Knight Returns, and lots more. Check it out!

Bat Force Radio · BatForceRadioEp235: Chip Kidd Interview !

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Video – POLITICS AND PROSE Bookstore: JAMES ELLROY Talks About His New Book, THIS STORM (Knopf)

In this recent video by the POLITICS AND PROSE Bookstore James Ellroy discusses his novel, “This Storm” (Knopf, Book Cover Design by Chip Kidd). Ellroy, one of the top crime fiction writers working today, excels at telling large stories on an expansive canvas. He won renown first with his Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy–which included the classic American Tabloid—and cemented his reputation with his unparalleled L.A. Quartet.

In his new novel, which follows Perfidia as the second volume of a projected four, Ellroy returns to Los Angeles. The time is 1942. The city is inflamed with war fever and racism, and many in the LAPD are less concerned with fighting crime than with profiteering, tracking down fifth column elements, or, when a body washes up in a mudslide, with claiming a share of the loot from an unsolved gold heist a decade earlier. Masterfully paced, richly plotted, and dripping with noir, this is historical crime fiction at its best—and vintage Ellroy.

JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L. A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.

Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.’s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web by clicking right here – POLITICS and PROSE.

Book Cover Design by Chip Kidd (Knopf)

THIS STORM: A Novel (Knopf) by James Ellroy

Hardcover: 608 pages
Publisher: Knopf; 1st Edition (June 4, 2019)
Cover design: Chip Kidd
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307957004
ISBN-13: 978-0307957009

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CBS Sunday Morning Talks with Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon About Their New Book, “Memoirs and Misinformation”

If you think Jim Carrey is merely a brilliant-but-quirky actor/comedian, just wait until you read his new book titled “Memoirs and Misinformation:A Novel (Knopf).”

CBS News Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Carrey and co-author Dana Vachon about their new “semi-autobiographical novel.”

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