Think of how much Zayn Malik has done since leaving One Direction. He broke off an engagement, started dating a gorgeous supermodel (Gigi Hadid), released a solo album, you name it! Now to add to that list, he is writing a memoir.

With the singer being a tender age of 23, you would wonder what he has to say, but considering he is such a celebrated name and has done so much after leaving a boyband, I personally believe he may have ample things to say. He is iconic for so many things, and his style is one of them.

We can celebrate that or his raunchy song lyrics that are still very catchy. Sure, the 23-year-old charmer has his own ideas and his thoughts that he seeks to translate to paper in an autobiographical approach, but there are questions, pressing questions that is, that still plague the hearts and minds of curious and eager fans.

Who knows what is in store and how exhilarating this memoir will be? Of course, I can imagine he will focus on his mainstream success and his solo career. The question I am  still obsessively concerned with, but maybe not as much as others, is why did he leave One Direction?

Who is Zayn  and can this book work to break all of the premonitions and prejudices that fans and people that are certainly not fans, have of him? By this I mean how people say Zayn seems like a jerk or that he seems conceited.

No doubt, his career is taking off already with a commendable, meticulously enjoyable album already out. We shall see what is in store with this book! Reportedly, the book will surface November 1 of the year!

Today, July 16, in year 1951, the novel, Catcher in the Rye, by author J.D. Sallinger, was published. I remember reading the book cover-to-cover in high school for a project and really finding it fun and insightful. The brilliant novel is still popular today, catering to readers timelessly. The reflective and retrospective novel, based on fictional protagonist, Holden Caulifield, is a collective reflection of his feelings of his teenage years, given to his younger sister, Phoebe Caulifield. Since it caters to all speakers of languages worldwide, and 250,000 copies are sold each year, according to the Wikipedia page.

The novel has notably made many lists, including Time magazine’s top 100 novels, entering this list at 25 in 2005. Set in 1949, the novel is based on the 16-17 year old Holden Caulifield and is set in the various schools that Holden has flunk out of. At the end of the novel, readers see that Holden essentially has told the story to his little sister, Phoebe, to whom he gives a hat. Featuring the point of view of protagonist, Holden Caulifield, the novel also features colloquial terms from his teenage years, making the novel more relatable to the common reader that it caters to. The teenage reader can have definitely many interpretations of the novel, and the reader sees the reference made to the title at the end, while children play and mention the “catcher in the rye.” On this roughly 25-year anniversary of the awesome book, you can pick it up and read it, and make sure you do this!

M Train is singer,songwriter,National award-winning novelist Patti Smith’s self-written memoir.Set in eighteen “stations” all around the globe from Europe,Asia to South America.