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Tilda Swinton to publish typically unconventional new memoir

The Room Next Door star's autobiography Material Evidence will publish in the fall of 2028.

Tilda Swinton to publish typically unconventional new memoir

Tilda Swinton's upcoming memoir, titled "Material Evidence," promises to be anything but conventional. The versatile actress, known for her ability to embody diverse characters, from Elizabethan figures to MCU mystics, has opted to explore a more eclectic approach to her life story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will release the book next year, and Swinton describes it as "a book about curiosity."

In a statement on the publisher's Instagram, Swinton enigmatically describes the memoir as "a trail of breadcrumbs through the forest" and hopes readers will feel "affirmed and recharged with energy to value the difference between that elusive spirit that we each, uniquely, constitute." The memoir will not follow a linear timeline but instead proceed object by object, including items like a christening dress, a letter, a wooden leg, a sweatshirt, a length of embroidery silk, and a photograph.

Swinton's memoir aims to capture the essence of memory, which is associative, sensory, and anchored in things, rather than adhering to a chronological narrative.

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