PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS FOR WEEK ENDING 8/7/2021

Anna Tingley All products and services featured by Variety are independently selected by Variety editors. However, Variety may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.Some people’s lives are so extraordinary it would feel remiss not to memorialize their stories on the page.

Anna Tingley All products and services featured by Variety are independently selected by Variety editors. However, Variety may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.A #1 New York Times Bestseller, McConaughey’s memoir and self-proclaimed “approach book” is filled with raucous stories and one-of-a-kind bits of wisdom from the actor’s less-than-average life.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Bloodless” by Preston/Child (Grand Central Publishing)2. “Billy Summers” by Stephen King ( Scribner)3.

Guy Lodge Film CriticFor any older men feeling left behind by a world of youth, social media and anti-patriarchal sentiment, “Best Sellers” offers a comforting message: You may yet be a younger person’s savior, provided they come to save you first.Harris Shaw, the ornery, outdated writer at the center of Lina Roessler’s gentle literary comedy, has been creatively blocked for 50 years since producing one vastly acclaimed novel.

1. “Bloodless” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central Publishing)2. “Billy Summers″ by Stephen King (Scribner)3.

Limp Bizkit have updated fans on their next album, announcing that new songs will arrive “in rapid succession, very soon”.In an Instagram Story post last night (August 25), the band reiterated that their previously scheduled performances have been cancelled, assuring fans that they are “all fine”.

Orlando Weeks has shared a new track called ‘Deep Down Way Out’ – listen below.The song is set to appear on the former Maccabees frontman’s second solo album, which follows his 2020 debut ‘A Quickening’. Further details on the record are yet to be announced.“I never thought I’d make cliff top, roof down, drive into the sunset type music but ‘Deep Down’ does feel like that to me,” Weeks explained of his latest single.”A sort of stompy freedom.

Few actresses have had as prolific a career as Angela Bassett, 63, has had. She’s captivated audience for decades from her performances in biopics like What’s Love Got To Do, where she played Tina Turner, to playing comic book characters, like in Black Panther. Throughout much of her lengthy career, she’s been married to stage actor Courtney B. Vance. In January 2006, the couple had twins Slater and Bronwyn via a surrogate.

Busta Rhymes complaining about mask-wearing and COVID policies is going viral on social media, taken during one of the veteran rapper’s live shows last month.Despite the pandemic continuing to hospitalise and kill millions across the US and beyond, including former Busta collaborator Fred The Godson who died from coronavirus last year, the rapper insisted that ongoing safety measures were an attempt to “take our civil liberties away”.“In the last sixteen fucking months, COVID could suck a dick,”

told People magazine of the controversial new advertisement, entitled “About Love,” which debuts globally on Sept. 2.

1 . "Billy Summers″ by Stephen King (Scribner)2 . ″American Marxism″ by Mark R.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Billy Summers” by Stephen King ( Scribner)2. “The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave ( Simon & Schuster)3.

The book industry, much like the film/TV industry, has undergone a fairly drastic change over the last decade or so. It’s no longer okay to just write a good book.

“To move forward, we have to look back.”

ViacomCBS’ Smithsonian Channel is prepping One Thousand Years of Slavery, a four-part docu-series from Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s Bassett Vance Productions.

One Thousand Years of Slavery, Bassett Vance Productions wanted to tell the globally comprehensive history of slavery,“ Bassett said.

Any '90s rock fan will remember Fred Durst belting out Limp Bizkit’s legendary tunes with his shaved head, beard and trademark backward baseball cap.The lead singer and his band have rocked the music scene since releasing Three Dollar Bill, Y’all in 1997 and thanks to Fred’s addictive, angry lyrics and their exciting live shows with body paint, masks and uniforms, Limp Bizkit has sold over 40 million records worldwide.