Tag: Memoir

In conversation with Bobbi Brown (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

**An Evening with Bobbi Brown
discussing her memoir, “Still Bobbi.”**

*This event is taped with an audience on November 12.*

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Wednesday, November 19, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on November 19 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

**“She didn’t just change how people wear makeup—she changed how they see themselves” (Charlamagne tha God, for the Time 100 Most Influential People list). Bobbi Brown, beauty mogul and visionary, opens up in her first memoir about the true story: reinvention, resilience, and the power of staying real.**

**Bobbi Brown** is a beauty industry titan, world-renowned makeup artist, bestselling author, sought-after speaker, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of her eponymous beauty brand and Jones Road Beauty. Born in Chicago and a graduate of Emerson College, Bobbi was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2021 and in 2022, was named one of Forbes “50 Over 50” Most Influential Women. Brown has received the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, the Fashion Group International Night of Stars Beauty Award, and the Jackie Robinson Foundation’s ROBIE Humanitarian Award. She was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation and was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. She holds honorary doctorates from Montclair State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Monmouth University, and Emerson College.

“Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. This isn’t another pep talk—it’s proof that small steps actually work. Bobbi Brown didn’t wait for the perfect plan to build her beauty empire; she figured it out as she went along. Let her powerful story be your reminder that you don’t need permission and you don’t have to feel ready. You just have to start.” —**Mel Robbins**, bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast

Bobbi Brown is a trailblazer —the founder of her namesake beauty brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and her four-year-old clean beauty brand, Jones Road. In her captivating new memoir, Still Bobbi, she shares her personal journey, including the integral relationships that inspired her to revolutionize the beauty industry despite numerous challenges.

Brown has written nine makeup tutorial books but has never before written about her life. Transcending a typical suburban childhood, academic challenges, and a wonderfully complicated and glamorous mother, Brown discovered and refined her own view of beauty: That real faces are beautiful. She talked her way into New York’s beauty and fashion scene in the 1980s, found the love of her life, built her namesake brand into a billion-dollar worldwide business, sold control of the brand, and built another —all while raising a family and remaining true to herself. 

In sharing a lifetime of intimate stories, hard-won practical wisdom, tips, and business savvy, she urges readers to embrace their own potential and pursue their dreams with confidence and clarity of purpose.

In conversation with Sir Roger Deakins (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
 
**An Evening with Sir Roger Deakins
discussing his visual memoir, “Reflections: On Cinematography”**

 

This event tapes with an audience on November 11.

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$60 Virtual Admission + signed book (**includes shipping to US addresses only)**. Includes access to watch the event on November 19 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

***From a two-time Academy Award winner widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time—a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life’s story by way of his iconic, beloved films.***

**Sir Roger A. Deakins** is widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time. Roger has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards, winning twice for Blade Runner 2049 and 1917. He has also been nominated 11 times for the BAFTA award, winning on five occasions. Roger has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society of Cinematographers, the British Society of Cinematographers, and the National Board of Review. He is also the sole cinematographer to have been honored with a CBE, in 2013, and a knighthood, in 2021. Roger splits his time between England and California, with his wife and longtime collaborator, James. You can follow them here.

Cinematography is both an art and science—capturing motion requires a combination of skill, ingenuity, and artistic genius. Lighting, camera movement, and framing are just a few of the important components in the process of turning words on a page into unforgettable moving images. Over the course of a brilliant 50-year career, Sir Roger Deakins has proven to be the greatest artist & visionary that the craft of cinematography has ever known.

***In Reflections: On Cinematography***, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts a one-of-a-kind look into his life and improbable road to Hollywood immortality. Readers will discover how “the boy from Torquay, England” overcame a troubled childhood to enter his way into art school; his fortuitous entry into world of documentary filmmaking (including a yacht race around the world); to shooting groundbreaking music videos such as Herbie Hancock’s “Rock It,” to his singular film career, including his longtime collaborations with the Coen Brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. 

Filled with never-before-seen storyboards, sketches, and diagrams, Rogers shows readers how he created some of the most iconic scenes in the most beloved films of all time. Through candid, lyrical prose, Deakins reflects on his life and each of his projects; how he helped shape them, and how they shaped him.
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A truly unique visual memoir, Reflections is for film fans and general readers alike, and for anyone looking to find inspiration, beauty, and creativity by looking through the singular lens with which Roger views the world.

Judd Apatow with Marc Maron (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 8pm

**Judd Apatow in conversation with Marc Maron
discussing his book, “Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures.”**

*This event is taped with an audience on October 30.*

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$60 Virtual Admission + signed book (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on November 6 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

**An intimate, rollicking highly-visual memoir of a comedic genius that offers a rare glimpse into the creative life and inner workings of legendary director producer Judd Apatow through never-before-seen photos, letters and behind-the-scenes stories.**

**Judd Apatow** wrote and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (co-written with Steve Carell), Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40; he directed Trainwreck; and his producing credits include Superbad, Bridesmaids, and Anchorman. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Leslie Mann.

In his 16 year run as a podcaster, **Marc Maron** has interviewed everyone from President Barack Obama to Keith Richards to Robin Williams on WTF with Marc Maron. His latest stand-up special, Panicked, will be released in August on HBO. As an actor, Maron has logged numerous credits, including the upcoming indie film In Memoriam; Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen biopic from 20th Century Studios and reprises his role in the animated feature, The Bad Guys 2. In addition to his hit stand-up comedy specials, additional film/tv credits include: Glow, Maron, To Leslie, The Order, Stick, Joker, Respect and Spencer Confidential.

“Judd Apatow has put together an amazing scrapbook of his life and career. The best part? There’s a lot of pictures. And the stuff that isn’t pictures? You don’t even have to look at! Now if you do read the words, you’ll be delighted. But again, personally, I didn’t. Apatowww! You the best!!!”—**Adam Sandler**

In the mid-eighties, a young, self-professed comedy nerd from Syosset, Long Island, named Judd Apatow took to the stage to perform his first standup routine—and survived. Over the coming decades, Apatow would translate his obsession for comedy into one of the most successful careers in Hollywood, through genre-defining films such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Bridesmaids, and This Is 40 and iconic series such as Girls and Freaks & Geeks. Through his solo work as well as his collaborations with fellow comedians Steve Carrell, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and countless others, Apatow reshaped the landscape of American comedy.

In this revelatory scrapbook memoir, Apatow has pulled hundreds of personal photographs, letters, scripts, drafts, and paired them with never-before-told stories to create a unique-in-format, deeply-personal-in-tone account of a storied career. Spanning decades, Comedy Nerd takes us on Apatow’s lifelong journey of fandom, creativity, and obsession: from the exacting, relentless work that goes into cracking people up; surprising stories about our favorite comedians; and insights into how Apatow has managed to push the limits of his craft in an ever-evolving cultural landscape. It is a candid, joyful, and fascinating portrait of an artist and storyteller who has spent decades making us laugh.

In conversation with Michael Lewis (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

 
**An Evening with Michael Lewis
on the 15 year anniversary of the book
and 10 year anniversary of the movie adaptation of 
“The Big Short.”**

This event is taped with an audience on October 29

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (International orders welcome)
Wedesday, November 5, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$40 Virtual Admission + The Big Short audio book. Includes access to watch the event on November 5 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

**The #1 New York Times bestselling account of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Hear the original story that was turned into an Oscar-winning film directly from the author, Michael Lewis, for the very first time.**

**Michael Lewis** is the host of the podcast Against the Rules and has published many New York Times bestselling books, including The Premonition, The Fifth Risk, Flash Boys, and Liar’s Poker. Movie versions of The Big Short, Moneyball, and The Blind Side were all nominated for Academy Awards. He grew up in New Orleans and remains deeply interested and involved in the city but now lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash had taken place silently over the previous year, in obscure financial markets where the SEC doesn’t bother to look: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was actually happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.

Newly narrated by the author himself, Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar’s Poker. In The Big Short, he asks: Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely―really unlikely―heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.