: a written account (such as a biography) that contains revealing and often scandalous information
tell-all
adjective
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In September 2024, Welch spoke with PEOPLE exclusively for a tell-all interview about her untraditional rise to internet stardom, which unexpectedly solidified her name in the pop culture conversation for months to come.
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Skyler Caruso, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025
By Charlie Warzel Perhaps the biggest surprise of Careless People, the new tell-all memoir by the former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, is that a book chronicling the social network’s missteps and moral bankruptcy can still make news in 2025.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
Apparently that ethos goes only so far, because Zuckerberg’s company, now called Meta, is taking extreme measures to quash a corporate tell-all by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global public policy director at Facebook.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Macmillan Publishers and its imprint Flatiron Books are standing behind the tell-all, which is now the New York Times number one bestseller.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
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Skyler Caruso, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025
By Charlie Warzel Perhaps the biggest surprise of Careless People, the new tell-all memoir by the former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, is that a book chronicling the social network’s missteps and moral bankruptcy can still make news in 2025.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
Apparently that ethos goes only so far, because Zuckerberg’s company, now called Meta, is taking extreme measures to quash a corporate tell-all by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global public policy director at Facebook.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Macmillan Publishers and its imprint Flatiron Books are standing behind the tell-all, which is now the New York Times number one bestseller.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Tell-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tell-all. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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