Joan Rivers Confidential: The Unseen Scrapbooks, Joke Cards, Personal Files, and Photos of a Very Funny Woman Who Kept Everything - Rilegato

"The truth is that [Melissa] Rivers has been doing all she can to keep her mother's voice as loud and brash as ever. To that end, she is publishing Joan Rivers Confidential, a coffee table-style scrapbook in which she has assembled many of the funniest monologues, letters and never-before-heard jokes (some scribbled on aeroplane boarding passes) that her mother amassed over the years. I want it to commemorate a woman who stayed so relevant, and skewered every one of the sacred cows, not in order to make a point but simply because she wanted to be funny. --The Daily Telegraph

'It's easy to forget, in this era of Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, how revolutionary it was for a meticulously coiffed, nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn born in 1933! to get up onstage and crack jokes about hookers, the Holocaust, and her vagina. What fun it is to be reminded.' --W magazine

"Melissa Rivers, 49, admits she did not know about her late mother's own neuroses - saving every news clipping and magazine article beginning in 1959 that mentioned her. Good or bad feature or review, Joan kept them all and glued them into scrapbooks and stored everything away in boxes, containing five decades of unseen scripts, monologues, and letters from famous friends. After her untimely death at age 81 in 2014, Melissa and Joan's close friend Scott Currie decided to look through just what was in storage. It is presented in a masterful and engrossing book, Joan Rivers Confidential: The Unseen Scrapbooks, Joke Cards, Personal Files, and Photos of a Very Funny Woman Who Kept Everything assembled by Melissa and Scott and published by Abrams" Daily Mail

"The book's letters and jokes provide an enthralling look under the lid of the late Joan's entertaining and controversial life." --Heat Magazine

Melissa Rivers is the cocreator of the Red Carpet franchise and the host and executive producer of the E! Entertainment series Fashion Police. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Joan and Red Carpet Ready.

Scott Currie began his career as a television producer on The Joan Rivers Show and now owns his own communications firm in New York City.