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A Joan Rivers biography is already in the works.
It was announced on Tuesday that Little, Brown and Company publishing house has acquired the book, which is set to be released in 2016.
Joan Rivers: A Life will be penned by Leslie Bennetts, a journalist known for her work in Vanity Fair and the New York Times, who first reported the news.
And it is being described as ‘the definitive book about Rivers’s tumultuous, victorious, tragic, glamorous, and fascinating life’.
Bennetts said in a statement: ‘Joan Rivers' life story was, in every way, a remarkably dramatic roller-coaster ride characterized by triumphant highs and devastating lows, one that is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving.
‘But Rivers' career was also enormously significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for women in television and comedy and continually redefining the acceptable boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life.’
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She added: ‘It's hard to imagine a more compelling subject for a book — or one that would be more fun.’
Little, Brown and Company’s editor-in-chief Judy Clain echoed the same sentiments in her statement.
‘Joan Rivers was more than a comedian — she was an icon and a role model to millions,’ Clain said. ‘I'm thrilled that journalist Leslie Bennetts is now on board with Little, Brown to bring the full depth and drama of Rivers's career and personality to life.’
Joan Rivers: A Life will also be available to purchase as an eBook and as an audio book, via Hachette Audio.
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It’s certainly a lucrative deal to ink. Sales of the comedienne’s memoirs have skyrocketed following her death aged 81 on September 4.
The Hollywood Reporter claims that sales of Diary Of A Mad Diva, which was just published in July, have increased by 70,750 percent – the book is now the number two bestseller on Amazon after previously being placed at 1417.
Her 2012 book I Hate Everyone… Starting With Me now ranks at number 55 on the list, shooting up from 9678. It has seen a 9678 increase in sales.
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Costume purists insist on accurate corseting for 19th century-style women’s costume. They make reproduction corsets for re-enactments and historic events. Okay, purists: when collecting original garments as opposed to reproductions, try to find a real Victorian or Edwardian corset. Just try.
CorsetingCorseting partially explains many of those tiny-looking antique clothes in shops and museums. Nineteenth-century people were probably no more slender than people of today, but fashionable women depended on their corsets, rather than diet or exercise, to endow them with the ideal figure. And the ideal figure was not anorexically lean: it was rounded and ample, with an unnaturally small waist.
On the vintage market today, you can find some bodices with normal-width busts, hips and shoulders and absurdly low waist measurements, but you’ll look a long way for the stays that created this surreal shape. Latter-day corsets with modern boning, zippers and elastic have been worn into recent years. But the legendary, breath-choking, rib-wrenching Victorian corset pulled a disappearing act, surprising for a garment that supposedly held fashion (and women) in its grip for a century.
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