Tag: Memoir

Googoosh in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
 
**Googoosh
in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi
discussing her memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice.”**

*This event is taped on December 4.*

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (US Orders Only)
Thursday, December 11, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$48 Virtual Admission + book with signed book plate (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on December 11 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

Before there was Madonna or Beyoncé, there was **Googoosh**. For the first time, one of the world’s biggest pop stars of the 20th century tells her remarkable story in her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice”—her rise to fame in pre-revolution Iran, her arrest and imprisonment, her twenty-year exile, and finally, her triumphant return to the global stage.

Born Faegheh Atashin in 1950, Googoosh is Iran’s first and biggest popstar. She lives in Los Angeles.

In this lyrical and moving memoir, she takes us through her difficult upbringing in Iran’s tumultuous 1950s and ’60s to her stardom in the ’70s—and what it was like to reach the peak of her career during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Seemingly overnight, she went from being on magazine covers, at film premieres and fashion shows, and constantly on the radio, to targeted by religious clerics. What followed is a harrowing tale of oppression, intimidation, and exile.

Now, inspired by the brave women of Iran on the front lines fighting for their freedoms, Googoosh finally tells her full story, and with it, the story of a country once again on the brink.

**Nazanin Boniadi** is an Iranian-born actress and renowned human rights advocate. Her television credits include Homeland, How I Met Your Mother, and Counterpart.’On the big screen, she won acclaim for her memorable role in Bombshell and her leading role in Hotel Mumbai. As an activist, she has partnered with various charitable organizations to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on the unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women and prisoners of conscience.  Her thought leadership has been featured in major global media outlets, and her advocacy work has taken her to the halls of power around the world.

An Evening with KENNY CHESNEY (In-person)

November 7 @ 8:00 pm

One of contemporary American music’s biggest names, Kenny Chesney, talks about his memoir HEART LIFE MUSIC in which he shares the stories of a kid from small town East Tennessee with a dream fueled by the sports and music around him. When his high school football dreams came to an end, he found something more in college. He made an unexpected connection between people, life and songs from a barstool with a guitar and song. These are the stories of the unlikely game changer who became the sound of coming-of-age in the 21st century, made friends with his heroes, rocked stadiums and founded No Shoes Nation — a state of mind that encourages his fans to embrace freedom, live in the moment and enjoy life’s simple pleasures. Chesney appears in conversation with his co-author Holly Gleason, an American music critic, songwriter and music industry consultant, focused primarily on country and roots music.

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An Evening with KENNY CHESNEY (Virtual)

November 14 @ 6:00 pm

One of contemporary American music’s biggest names, Kenny Chesney, talks about his memoir HEART LIFE MUSIC in which he shares the stories of a kid from small town East Tennessee with a dream fueled by the sports and music around him. When his high school football dreams came to an end, he found something more in college. He made an unexpected connection between people, life and songs from a barstool with a guitar and song. These are the stories of the unlikely game changer who became the sound of coming-of-age in the 21st century, made friends with his heroes, rocked stadiums and founded No Shoes Nation — a state of mind that encourages his fans to embrace freedom, live in the moment and enjoy life’s simple pleasures. Chesney appears in conversation with his co-author Holly Gleason, an American music critic, songwriter and music industry consultant, focused primarily on country and roots music.

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Reading And Discussion With Andrew Lam

Red Hen Press author Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author based in San Francisco. His writing focuses on the Vietnamese diaspora, the American Dream and themes surrounding identity, culture, love and loss. A few of his most notable works include, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA, EAST EATS WEST: WRITING IN TWO HEMISPHERES, and his latest release STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA

ANNIE LENNOX in conversation with LORI MAJEWSKI (virtual)

November 10 @ 6:00 pm

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event: Monday, November 10, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET   **Annie Lennox in conversation with Lori Majewski discussing her visual memoir,  “Annie Lennox: Retrospective”** *This event is taped with an audience on November 2.* VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (**US Orders Only**) Monday, November 10, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET $75 Virtual Admission + book with signed book plate (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on November 10 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.. **A long-awaited visual memoir from Annie Lennox, a legend of popular music and culture. This is the award-winning artist’s first and only official book—destined to be the must-have title for music lovers and will command attention from the fashion and photography worlds.** Since her emergence at the outset of the 1980s as one half of Eurythmics and on through the course of a sensational solo career, **Annie Lennox** has gifted pop culture some of its most memorable and indelible images and sounds. Made in close collaboration with Lennox herself,Retrospective beautifully gathers together over 200 images, some created by celebrated photographers such as Richard Avedon, Paolo Roversi, Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth, interspersed with song lyrics and personal anecdotes to provide a fascinating insight into aspects of Annie Lennox’s life as a performer, song-writer and creative force. **Lori Majewski** is a veteran music journalist and on-air host at SiriusXM. She is author of Mad World: An Oral HIstory of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s. She is also a former magazine editor (Entertainment Weekly, Teen People, Us Weekly). As a writer, she’s contributed to The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Magazine, the Guardian, Rolling Stone, Variety and Women’s Health, and has appeared on CNN, the BBC, Today, Good Morning America, and in numerous documentaries.

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