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benny blanco Flips Failure Into Fuel in ‘F*ck Failure’
benny blanco has made a career out of songs the whole world can sing — and, lately, out of telling the truth about how messy the road to success really is. F*ck Failure, published September 15 by Simon & Schuster, is his second book: part memoir, part pep talk, and what his publisher calls “a guide to life and success.”
The title is the thesis. “You want success? You gotta fail better,” blanco writes, and the chapters deliver the message in his voice — among them “Shut Up,” “Dream Big,” “Don’t Be a Dick” and “Relax.” Mel Robbins praised the book as “a blockbuster of a book,” and Kirkus Reviews called it “a universal pep-talk on spinning failures into positives.” It follows his debut, the cookbook Open Wide, which became an instant, multi-week New York Times bestseller.
The credibility behind the advice is considerable. blanco is a Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer whose credits run through a decade of pop — Ed Sheeran, SZA, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Maroon 5, Juice WRLD and Sia among them — and his solo albums Friends Keep Secrets and Friends Keep Secrets 2 have piled up more than 11 billion streams. He has also played a version of himself on FXX’s Dave, and he is married to Selena Gomez.
F*ck Failure is built for readers who are tired of success stories that skip the falling down. At 208 pages and $28, it is a quick, funny, genuinely useful read — the sound of a hitmaker insisting that the flops are the tuition.
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Erin Napier understands that a house holds a family’s memory — and in her new picture book, the house gets to tell the story. The Christmas House, published October 6 by Tommy Nelson, is Napier’s holiday companion to her bestselling The Lantern House, told from the point of view of the house itself as it is decorated and filled with joy for Christmas.
Page by page, the house watches the season arrive: decorations are carried down from the attic, a hand-carved nativity is set out, cookies are baked, and a family treasure is uncovered in the basement. At the center of it all is Grandpa’s cracked wooden Christmas star — worn, imperfect, and the most important decoration of all — in a story that gently honors a family member who has passed and the way traditions keep loved ones present. Folk artist Adam Trest illustrates, in the same warm style that made The Lantern House a favorite.
Napier, beloved as a co-host of HGTV’s Home Town, announced the book to her followers in August, describing it as a story about how Christmas traditions keep the people we love alive forever. She will take it on the road this season, with stops including Birmingham, Alabama on November 7; Jackson, Mississippi on November 21; New York City on November 30; and Laurel, Mississippi on December 5.
Written for ages 4 to 8, The Christmas House runs 40 pages and is priced at $19.99 — a read-aloud built for the nights when the tree goes up and the whole family crowds in close.
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