Off-the-wall actor Matthew McConaughey has recently made a big splash with his memoir Greenlights. He was born in 1969 and raised in Texas, spending much of his childhood in Uvalde, a small town in the middle of nowhere. His mother Kay did a bit of kindergarten teaching and his dad Jim was an oil pipe salesman. Jim played golf whenever he could. Matthew McConaughey revealed in his new memoir, 'Greenlights,' that he was sexually abused on multiple occasions as a teen. 'I was blackmailed into having sex for the first time when I was fifteen.
| Author | Matthew McConaughey |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Matthew McConaughey |
| Cover artist | Miller Mobley (photo) Christopher Brand (design) Michael Morris (design) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | |
| Publisher | Crown |
| October 20, 2020 | |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audio |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-0-593-13913-4 (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 1152442722 |
| 791.4302/8092 B | |
| LC Class | PN2287.M54545 A3 2020 |
| Website | greenlights.com |
Greenlights Book
Greenlights is a book by American actor Matthew McConaughey.[1][2] It was published on October 20, 2020, by the Crown imprint of Crown Publishing Group.[3] The book includes stories and insights from McConaughey's life in chronological order. It has been described as a memoir but McConaughey has called it an 'approach book'.[4] It debuted at number one on The New York Times non-fiction best-seller list.[5]
Background[edit]
McConaughey exiled himself in the desert without electricity for fifty-two days while writing the book.[6]Greenlights originated from diaries and journals McConaughey began writing when he was fourteen years old.[7] McConaughey described the book as a collection of 'stories, prayers, poems, people and places and a whole bunch of bumper stickers.'[8]
Publication and promotion[edit]
Greenlights was published on October 20, 2020, by the Crown imprint of Crown Publishing Group.[9] McConaughey promoted the book with appearances on Good Morning America,[10]The Joe Rogan Experience, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The GaryVee Audio Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Howard Stern Show, Pardon My Take, The Dr. Oz Show, Fox & Friends, and Russell Wilson's DangerTalk podcast,[11]Hot Ones,[12] and The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast podcast.[13]
The book debuted at number one on The New York Times non-fiction best-seller list for the week ending October 24, 2020.[5]
Reception[edit]
Mark Athitakis of The Washington Post called McConaughey's poetry 'cringeworthy' and criticized his wisdom for being unrelatable, calling the book 'stuffed with vaporous, circular proverbs for would-be McConaugheys.'[14] In their review, The Times of India wrote, 'The writing is conversational and easy to read, though this is one book whose audiobook form is worth listening to. The actor/author reads it himself, with the correct inflections and even does voices. It's truly entertaining.'[15] In an interview with McConaughey, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said that the book was 'a collection of great stories'.[16]
References[edit]
- ^Itzkoff, Dave (October 14, 2020). 'Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey'. The New York Times. Retrieved October 21, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Romano, Nick (July 30, 2020). ''Are you lit?' 'Cause Matthew McConaughey is writing a memoir'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^'Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey'. Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^Hunt, Elle (October 26, 2020). 'Zen and the art of torso maintenance: Matthew McConaughey's guide to life'. The Guardian. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ^ ab'Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers'. The New York Times. November 8, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^Kirkpatrick, Emily (August 13, 2020). 'Matthew McConaughey Spent 52 Days Alone in the Desert with No Electricity to Write His Memoir'. Vanity Fair. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^Paiella, Gabriella (October 21, 2020). 'Matthew McConaughey Is Thinking About His Eulogy'. GQ. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^'Matthew McConaughey on His Memoir Writing Process: 52 Days Alone in the Desert (Without Electricity!)'. People. August 12, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^Schaub, Michael (July 30, 2020). 'Matthew McConaughey Is Making His Literary Debut'. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
- ^FitzPatrick, Hayley (October 19, 2020). 'Matthew McConaughey talks lifelong dream of being a father and the first moment he saw his wife'. Good Morning America. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
- ^O'Neal, Sean (October 23, 2020). 'Won't You Say You Love a Dark 'Barney' Movie?'. Texas Monthly. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
- ^'Matthew McConaughey Grunts it Out While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones'. Complex.com. October 22, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- ^'The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: Matthew McConaughey'. Apple Podcasts. January 10, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
- ^Athitakis, Mark (October 20, 2020). 'Matthew McConaughey is 'alright, alright, alright' — and thinks you will be too'. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
- ^'Micro review: 'Greenlights' by Matthew McConaughey'. The Times of India. November 16, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
- ^'The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - Season 4 Episode 1: Matthew McConaughey - YouTube'. www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
Matthew McConaughey’s Book Release
Academy Award-winning actor and producer Matthew McConaughey is releasing a quirky and thought-provoking memoir this week called Greenlights. With a credit list that goes all the way back to Dazed and Confused (1993), McConaughey has certainly racked up enough Hollywood stories to spill some serious tea.
Dalet radio automation software download. The cover jacket shows a long-haired Matthew staring off into the distance with praying hands pressed to his lips. When you pull the jacket off the memoir, the cover has a surprisingly whimsical traffic light on the cover with all green lights. Hence, the name of the book.
The theme is about finding a sort of flow state that feels like catching all green lights while driving.
That reminds me of those Lincoln car commercials with McConaughey driving down the highway with that dazed and confused look in his eyes. Thirty years in Hollywood and an Academy Award can’t dull the cowboy drawl of this Texas native.
The Hollywood icon recently turned 50 and in typical midlife style, he looked back over the story of his life to figure it all out. McConaughey was helped by the stack of diaries and journals that he’s kept since he was 15 years old.pen to paper #greenlightsbook
Oct 20th https://t.co/g56OCvrl5kpic.twitter.com/ErCKeFyh4x
— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) October 19, 2020
In the book description, the Dallas Buyers Club star gets all kinds of introspective during a trip to the desert to pen this book. He called it a love letter to life. It contains stories and memories about his past, ideas and philosophies that’ve helped him in his career, and much more.
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McConaughey Family Life
McConaughey has 3 children – Livingston 8, Vida 10, and Levi 12 with his wife Camila Alves. He opened up about his family life for a PEOPLE magazine cover story. Since the quarantine has McConaughey’s family trapped indoors, they’ve taken up photography. Jarvis clock for android.
“One of the assets of this COVID quarantine is they’ve been forced to be more self-reliant. They’ve been forced to create their way out of their boredom,” he says in the People interview. His children even composed the PEOPLE mag cover photo for their dad’s story.
Matthew McConaughey Opens Up about Raising Creative Kids (They Even Took People’s Cover Photo!) https://t.co/HmazyiQVabpic.twitter.com/USQvFr0bSr
— People (@people) October 14, 2020
He has leaned into fatherhood with gusto and believes it’s the greatest part of his life. He told People, “The only thing I ever knew I wanted to be was a father,” he says. “And it’s remained the pinnacle for me. Being a dad was always my only dream. … I can’t think of anything being more important.”
His own parents’ tumultuous marriage was a major focal point of the memoir. They split and remarried three times. He gave a detailed description of the time his mother broke his dad’s nose during an argument, only to patch it with sex on the kitchen floor.
Greenlights Book Cover
“Nobody or nothing could kill him. Except mom,” the True Detective star wrote in his memoir. In fact, his father died while having sex. The Oscar winner describes the call he got from his mother in Greenlights and his father’s own prediction about his death.
“He’d always told me and my brothers, ‘Boys, when I go, I’m gonna be makin’ love to your mother.’ And that’s what happened. He had a heart attack when he climaxed.”
McConaughey’s mother is still with him, aged 88 and she’s very close with his family.
Matthew McConaughey’s Romantic Moments
He’s already leaked some steamy details about his life in recent interviews. He admitted to dating Ashley Judd and Sandra Bullock. There was a brief encounter with Janet Jackson. There’s bound to be some more dirt in his upcoming memoir.
Matthew McConaughey is considered one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, but one of his rom com co-stars recently revealed that he isn’t such a great kisser. Kate Hudson was on Gwyneth Paltrow’s podcast Goop last week. The two friends dished about onscreen chemistry and worst kisses.
As you may recall, Hudson starred with Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Fool’s Gold. Hudson wasn’t wowed by the lip locking abilities of her tall, dark and handsome co-star.
She told Paltrow during the podcast, “The thing is, every time I kiss McConaughey, it's like, I mean, it's like there's just something happening and there's like snot or wind, or things are just… like when we were kissing in the end of Fool's Gold, we're like in the ocean, we like had the plane crash,” she told Paltrow with a laugh. “He just had snot all over his face.”
Related:7 Surprising Facts About Matthew McConaughey
Check Out Greenlights, the New Memoir from Matthew McConaughey
Greenlights hits bookshelves on October 20th.
You can scoop up a copy from Amazon and be sure to let us know what you think.