Popdose: For Adults Only

Watching adult entertainment isn’t necessarily the sort of thing you’d feel comfortable admitting to everyone, but reading about the adult entertainment business? Somehow, that feels much more socially acceptable.

Here are must-read books about the, uh, more sordid side of the entertainment world: 

Read the last Popdose on 7 celebrity biographies you probably haven't read, but should.

Ordeal: The Truth Behind Deep Throat and Out of Bondage

Linda Lovelace with Mike McGrady

Until Harry Reems decides to take a break from his burgeoning real estate career and write a proper reminiscence of his days as an adult ...

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Popdose: 7 Celebrity Autobiographies You May Not Have Read (But Should)

Keith Richards. Tina Fey. Jay-Z. Sure, those are heavy-hitters in the celebrity autobiography world. But check out these lesser-knowns—there are joys aplenty to be found in these seven celeb tell-alls that may have fallen under your radar.

Read more from Popdose on Joe Simon’s career. 

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim

Don’t pretend you didn’t hate Alison Arngrim’s character on Little House on the Prairie. She already knows you did. Nellie Oleson may have been the antithesis of the sweet-as-pie Ingalls girls ...

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Popdose: Bob Mould’s ‘See A Little Light’

As one of the two frontmen for Minneapolis alt-rock legends Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould earned enough respect and recognition to kickstart a successful solo career, which in turn allowed him the opportunity to form the short-lived but much loved Sugar. There’s more to Mould than just his music, though, and his memoir, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, provides a forum for him to open up about his personal life as well as a few of his less heralded career sidebars, such his stint as a WCW scriptwriter. Yes, really.

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Popdose: Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland is known as the front man for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, but in the past, he has also been notorious for his dalliances with certain illicit substances. Weiland opens up about his experiences with the eternal trifecta of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in his new memoir, Not Dead & Not for Sale, out this week.

Read more books by and about musicians wtih Steve Earle and  Ice-T.

You can definitely hear your voice within the pages of the book, but I’m just curious how you came to team up with David Ritz as ...

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Popdose: Rob Lowe’s ‘Stories I Only Tell My Friends’

There are a lot of surprising things about Rob Lowe’s autobiography, but for those who keep an eye open at their local bookseller for the latest celebrity tell-all, one of the most notable things about Stories I Only Tell My Friends is that it’s one of the first times a member of the so-called Brat Pack has dared to put pen to paper—metaphorically speaking anyway—and write the story of their life.

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Indeed, only Molly Ringwald has preceded Lowe as an author ...

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Popdose: Top 10 Favorite Tina Fey Moments

Given that Tina Fey has conquered television—first on Saturday Night Live, then with 30 Rock —and continues to make slow but steady headway on the big screen as well (the Tina trifecta consists of Mean Girls, Baby Mama and Date Night), it was only a matter of time before she decided to stake her claim in the print world as well. On the occasion of Fey’s Bossypants hitting the shelves, we take a look back at 10 moments that helped her earn that multimillion-dollar book deal in the first place.

1. Saturday Night Live: “Weekend Update” (2000-06): Although ...

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