Why celebrity memoirs rule publishing

One celebrity autobiography made our reviewer cry – but the rest just bored him to tears. What would reading 11 of them in four days do to his brain?Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas famously begins: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." The first sentence of The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, goes like this: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in N...

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