Vanities

Record-setters

October 2021 Keziah Weir
Vanities
Record-setters
October 2021 Keziah Weir

Record-setters

In these new books, three stars put their lives on paper.

PHOEBE ROBINSON

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

Robinson's third laugh-out-loud essay collection is the first from her new imprint, Tiny Reparations. "We are more than trauma," she says, "and I plan to be one of many imprints to show that."

STANLEY TUCCI

Taste: My Life Through Food

The actor details his epicurean life in this memoir with recipes from Gallery Books, not least a French delicacy shared with Meryl Streep. Her reaction: "It does have a bit of the barnyard about it." His: "It looks like a fucking horse cock."

MICHAELA COEL

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Coel's affecting first book, out from Holt, adds a new intro and epilogue to the text of her 2018 MacTaggart Lecture, which discusses racism in the film industry and the assault that would inspire I May Destroy You. —K.W.

Keziah Weir