In a world filled with false journalistic accounts, from Jayson Blair's to Jonah Lehrer's, Ryszard Kapuściński’s can claim fame as the most beautiful. In "Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life," Artur Domosławski, his friend, disciple, and now biographer uses Kapuściński’s departures from the truth as a way to understand the great reporter’s intentions -- revealing, in the end, his contributions to literature as well as journalism. [via The Guardian]

Out today, 65-year-old Paul Auster’s memoir "Winter Journal" is a deep exploration of aging from a highly personal -- that means you, too -- point of view. Written in second person, Auster’s story offers his readers a front-row seat to the emotional and physical details that make up a life: we learn of his younger body weathering childhood accidents involving nails and baseball bats and his older one acting as humiliating stranger. The story swings through flashbacks dictated by feeling rather than the bounds of chronology. The effect is dizzying, true to life and to Auster’s shrewd ways of capturing it. [via The Washington Post]

Oscar-winning actor and Bourne Legacy assassin Jeremy Renner is looking forward to filling a hero’s role. He’s set to play Steve McQueen in a biopic based in part on Marshall Terrill's gritty biography "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel." With a ruggedly introspective handsomeness rivaling McQueen’s, Renner is a cleaner-cut version of his notoriously fearless subject. Finding out whether he has McQueen’s penchant for performing his own stunts is just one of the reasons we’re looking forward to this film. [via ContactMusic.com]

Early reports that Jerry Sandusky is co-writing a memoir with Dottie Sandusky, his wife of forty years, have caused us to wonder if its print run could be the smallest one in history. The former Penn State assistant football coach was soundly convicted of almost fifty counts of child molestation earlier this year, marking him as one of the most reviled men of 2012. Apparently, he still has a story to tell. [via LawyerHerald.com]

Sandusky’s boss Joe Paterno, the great Penn State coach whose refusal to put an end to his employee’s behavior led to his firing, which coincided with a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, has been immortalized by Joe Posnanski, a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated. The biography, released today, includes details on Paterno’s reactions to his tragic fall. Look to the September issue of GQ for an excerpt of the book. [via The New York Times]