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Jackson’s autobiography gets new printing.
Publishers including Random House have bought the rights to reprint Michael Jackson’s best-selling 1988 autobiography, “Moonwalk.”
The book, in which the late pop icon talks of his fame, music career and famous family, will be released in October. It will sell for $25.
The U.S. and Canadian rights were bought by Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House. Harmony will print an initial run of 100,000 copies. A spokesman for Harmony declined to comment on the terms of the deal made with Jackson’s estate.
In the book, Jackson discusses figures such as Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, Brooke Shields, his sister Janet Jackson and his tumultuous relationship with his father, Joe Jackson.
Random House said it will soon reveal which entertainment figure close to Jackson will write a new introduction. Reuters.com
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The Confessions of Edward Day, by Valerie Martin
My mother liked to say Freud should have been strangled in his crib. Not that she had ever read one line of the eminent psychoanalyst’s writing or knew anything about his life and times. She probably thought he was German; she might have gotten his actual dates wrong by half a century. She didn’t know about the Oedipus complex or the mechanics of repression, but she knew that when children turned out badly, when they were conflicted and miserable and did poorly in school, Freud blamed the mother. This was arrant nonsense, Mother declared. Children turned out the way they turned out and mothers were as surprised as anyone else. Her own child-rearing strategy had been to show no interest at all in how her children turned out, so how could she be held responsible for them?
Proof of Mother’s assertions might be found in the relatively normal men her four sons grew to be, not a pervert or criminal among us, though my oldest brother, Claude, a dentist, has always shown far too much interest in crime fiction of the most violent and degraded sort, and my profession, while honest, is doubtless, in some quarters, suspect. For the other two, Mother got her doctor and lawyer, the only two professions her generation ever recommended. My brothers’ specialties have the additional benefit of being banal: the doctor is a urologist and the lawyer handles real estate closings.
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