Mike D and Ad-Rock, the two remaining members of '80s groundbreaking hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys, have signed with Random House imprint Spiegel and Grau to write a band memoir with an unusual but fitting structure. The book, which will be edited by music journalist Sacha Jenkins, will be organized as an fast-moving, oral narrative, packed with the humor, irreverence, and pop-culture bits you'd think forthcoming from the three -- we expect the voice of MCA, who died early last year from a rare form of cancer, to be in the final mix as well. Other writers will chime in, too, for a whirlwind, multilayered biography due out in fall 2015. [via The New York Times]

Once the other half of Black Star, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli will now dig deep into his memoir influences in order to write with his own autobiography, due to hit bookstores in 2014. Citing biography as a source of favorite material since his earliest reading days, Kweli professes special love for the memoirs of Iceberg Slim, Malcolm X, and Miles Davis -- plus, a few fiction favorites like To Kill a Mockingbird and Octavia Butler's sci-fi -- as examples of a genre that help him find his own place in history. He plans to put the brutal honesty he learned from his memoir heroes to special use in his own life story: After his editor suggested he remove some unflattering sections, his publisher insisted he reinsert them, and Tweli happily agreed, saying his book will give us an even better view of the man than his music has. [via MTV Hive]

Author Gary Shteyngart will follow up his highly appreciated novels Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan with a story still more his own: a memoir detailing his family's late seventies move from Soviet Russia to the United States. Tentatively titled Little Failure,"with pre-press statements like "I've lived this troubled life so others don’t have to. Learn from my failure, please,” Shteyngart's tale of his own life is sure to follow his novels' satirical takes. It will appear in bookstore in January 2014. [via The New York Times]

After almost 20 years, James Carville and Mary Matalin are putting their opposing political views and harmonious domestic life to literary use again, this time with a more personal take. The famously contending couple will publish a joint memoir -- written from both highly intense and entertaining sides -- in 2014. While Matalin promises "two unique perspectives: Mine counter balanced by one that is opposite and wrong," and Carville maintains his expertise on all things political and nuptial, their joint tale will focus on each one's view of U.S. news events, and their secrets for staying married and raisingtwo children across two decades. [via Politico]