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RuPaul’s New Memoir, ‘The House of Hidden Meanings’ Is Already No. 1 On Amazon — Here’s Where to Buy

RuPaul’s New Memoir, ‘The House of Hidden Meanings’ Is Already No. 1 On Amazon — Here’s Where to Buy
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By Sage AndersonMar 05, 2024
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RuPaul‘s highly anticipated new memoir The House of Hidden Meanings was announced back in October of 2023, but the queer icon’s tell-all has already skyrocketed to the top of on Amazon’s bestselling LGBTQ+ Biographies list ahead of its release.

With the release date and cover revealed late last year, Mama Ru’s revelatory memoir gives his fans a behind-the-scenes look into the first 40 years of his life — before he co-createdDrag Race. Spanning 256 pages, The House of Hidden Meaningscovers everything from RuPaul’s early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego, navigating his “complex relationship” with his absentee father and “temperamental” mother, to finding identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, and accepting himself in his journey with sobriety.

Fans can also get the Emmy-winning TV host’s new memoir for a 30% discount as of publication time. Normally $29.99, you can buy the hardcover edition of RuPaul’s The House of Hidden Meaningsfor $20.99 while Amazon’s promotion lasts.

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“I’m so excited and so anxious at the same time because I reveal so much of myself,” RuPaul said a an Instagram video announcing the memoir last year. “This world today, it feels so hostile, and it’s such a scary place to be vulnerable in. But I did it. So get ready.” In the caption of the post, Ru wrote, “Writing this book left me gooped, gagged and stripped raw. I’ve learned that vulnerability is strength, but so far, all I feel is nervous as hell, yet super excited to share it with y’all. When all is said and done, it’s just me, Ru.”

While the introspective memoir also dives into the self-proclaimed “supermodel and supermogul”‘s road to fame, his Emmy-Award winning Drag Race franchise, and music career, the book as aims to be a “manual for living”. The book will focus on his personal philosophy about the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and facing yourself. “I’ve always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface. Here, the focus is on my own life—as RuPaul Andre Charles,” says RuPaul.

Fans can also hear Ru himself narrate the The House of Hidden Meanings audiobook in his own words. You can listen to the audiobook version of the memoir for free with Audible’s 30-day free trial.

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With the current offer, you’ll get to use one credit each month to choose and keep a premium audiobook title for your collection. After the four-month promotion ends, your Audible subscription costs $14.95 a month.

This isn’t the first time RuPaul has shown off his writing skills or bore his soul down on the page. The House of Hidden Meanings marks Ru’s fourth book, coming off the heels of his 2018 self-help guidebook GuRu, his 2010 style guide Workin’ It!: RuPaul’s Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style, and his 1996 autobiography Lettin It All Hang Out.

RuPauls new memoir The House of Hidden Meanings is available to buy in stores and on Amazon starting March 5, 2024 for $29.99.

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That’s That Me Exclusive: Where to Buy Every Edition of Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Album

That’s That Me Exclusive: Where to Buy Every Edition of Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Album

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“I reckon it’s.. officially short n’ sweet month💋💋💋,” Sabrina Carpenter wrote online, weeks before dropping her highly anticipated new album. Fans can now pick up her sixth studio LP, Short n’ Sweet, online and on shelves now in a slew of exclusive vinyl variants. Staying true to its title, the 36-minute Short n’ Sweet includes tracks like “Taste,” Slim Pickins,” “Good Graces,” and, of course, “Please Please Please” and “Espresso.”

“This project is quite special to me and I hope it’ll be something special to you too,” Carpenter wrote online after debuting the Short n’ Sweet album cover and title in June.

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“Short, sweet, has made an extraordinary album,” Taylor Swift shared of Short n’ Sweeton Aug. 23 on her Instagram Stories with checkmarks by each line.

Carpenter, who will embark on a sold-out North American tour in support of the album later this year, has taken over our playlists this summer, with chart-topping hits “Please Please Please,” and the undeniably catchy “Espresso.” (“I decided to put that burden on other people,” Carpenter told Rolling Stone earlier this year.)

And while everyone from your uncle to your BFF quotes its chorus with lyrics like “that’s that me espresso” every time they enter the coffee shop, Carpenter somehow followed it up with an equally quotable Short n’ Sweet track (“please don’t embarrass me, motherf-cker”). The Jack Antonoff-produced “Please Please Please” has garnered over hundreds of millions of streams alone, and propelled Carpenter to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 after it hit streaming services this summer.

“There’s like an Olivia Newton [John] feeling, there’s a Dolly feeling, there’s an incredibly super modern pop feeling,” Antonoff previously told Rolling Stone. “The little vocal runs she does are so bizarre and unique — they’re doing this really odd, classic, almost yodel-y country thing. She’s becoming one of the biggest young pop stars, and that song is such a statement of ­expressing yourself, not just lyrically, but sonically.”

If the tracks’ success are any indication, Carpenter’s new LP, Short N’ Sweet, is destined to become one of the biggest albums of 2024. Instead of releasing just one edition of her studio project, the “Espresso” hitmaker followed the lead of other pop superstars like Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish and dropped several exclusive editions of the album.

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Here’s everywhere to snag a copy of Short N’ Sweetonline right now.

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Carpenter’s Target exclusive Short n’ Sweet LP is available now for $39.99 right now. It includes a bubblegum-pink vinyl record, as well as its own poster.

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Amazon shoppers can score Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweeton vinyl in this “light sky” LP, exclusive to the online retailer. Available to pre-order, Amazon says the LP ships around the release date, Aug. 23.

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