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Author Raynor Winn's 2018 book, "The Salt Path," was a huge hit. It was an autobiographical tale of how she and husband Moth lost their home, Moth was diagnosed with a degenerative condition, and the pair walked the 630-mile South West Coast Path in the U.K. The book sold over a million copies and spawned two sequels and a movie starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. But over the weekend, reporting by the U.K. Observer called the story into question, casting doubt over the circumstances in which they lost their home, and Moth's illness. @BBCNews has the latest on the tangled tale.

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Author Raynor Winn of The Salt Path attends The Lighthouse Cinema for a Gala Screening of The Salt Path on May 06, 2025 in Newquay, Cornwall
flip.itThe Salt Path: Raynor Winn hits back at claims she misled readersThe author posted a lengthy statement challenging claims made in the Observer newspaper at the weekend.

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A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.
This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best...

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After Elton John had great success contributing songs for Disney's #TheLionKing, Disney asked Phil Collins to contribute songs for Disney's #Tarzan. He was happy to say yes. His work on this film took four years: he wrote and sang its songs. Because this is an international film, he sang in Italian, Spanish, Castilian Spanish, French, and German for the versions played to different audiences, and Phil Collins won the Oscar for #BestOriginalSong. He was delighted.
#music #movies #autobiography

Thanks to the #MutualAid community on TikTok, my partner, our two cats, and I are able to leave the extended stay hotel we’ve been struggling to stay sheltered in, and now have an #RV to call home.
I’ve started a playlist with RV-based content as a positive turn-around to hopefully come back from this #depression and share our experiences:

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As a #disabled #queer #artist who makes #AltRock music, art, and does other projects to earn a living, I’d sincerely appreciate any support; especially through streaming my music, getting merch or custom art from me, and supporting ( @magicalgrrrl ) my partner’s music and merch.
I currently have a children’s #storybook that I wrote and illustrated, on hold for (self)publication. It is a family-friendly book about my experiences with #homelessness stemming from childhood #abuse from the perspective of a cat.
I’m also slowly but surely working on an #autobiography about my experiences being #ActuallyAutistic with #CPTSD in hopes of reaching other people with similar stories. #Trauma and #HealingTrauma is also the main point of my music.
If you decide to check out the music, get some art, or some merch, thank you!!
You can find it all here:

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I read Albert Facey’s autobiographical A Fortunate Life as a kid. I don’t remember much about it apart from a hard childhood in remote Western Australia and then enlisting for The Great War. I saw that the 1986 made for television mini-series is on Tubi at the moment, so I’m giving it a watch.

Margaret Atwood has written a memoir, which will be out on Nov. 4. Why? "My publishers made me do it," the Canadian novelist told @Vogue in a new interview about the book. "When they first proposed it, I said, ‘Oh, that would be so boring.’ I mean, I wrote a book, I wrote another book, I wrote another book…Who’s going to read that?” Here's more on "Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts," plus Atwood's thoughts on what makes a good biography, "The Handmaid's Tale" and its pertinence, and Trump's fixation with making Canada the 51st U.S. state. "I think it’s lovely that the United States has recognized its mistake and wishes to join Canada so they can have a king,” Atwood says, “but it wouldn’t be the 51st state. It would be 10 new states and two territories, which would mean that the Republicans would never get elected again. So he’s welcome to try.”

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British Vogue · Margaret Atwood Announces Her Long-Hoped-For MemoirBy Anna Cafolla

Lisa Jackson and The National #Film Board - #NFB of #Canada have created a #documentary that redefines #Indigenous #knowledge and #teachings using the life and times of #Elder, #cosmology and #astronomy expert, Wilfred Buck.

“We are in the process of remaking an age-old song . . . signing, dreaming, praying, talking into existence once again the knowledge of our people,” said Wilfred Buck.

Moving between the earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and impertinent #Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing – yet all too familiar — history of displacement, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.

Buck is humble, profound, funny, always real and a master #storyteller. Narration taken from his #autobiography, I Have Lived Four Lives, condenses the loss and desperate pain of his youth into powerful, Beat-like poetry.

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rabble.ca · Wilfred Buck and the revival of Indigenous knowledgeA new documentary shares the life of Wilfred Buck, an Indigenous scientist and knowledge keeper.