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Tilda Swinton<\/a> has announced her debut memoir, and it\u2019s going to be a little freaky. In related news, what\u2019s with all these forks found in the kitchen? Material Evidence will eschew traditional linear narrative in favor of tracking Swinton\u2019s life through important objects. These include \u201ca christening dress, a letter, a wooden leg, a sweatshirt, a length of embroidery silk [and] a photograph,\u201d per publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u2019s Instagram. The book wants to echo how memory actually works, \u201c associative, sensory, anchored in things.\u201d If they really wanted to mimic human memory, the book would have a smell-o-vision card to go along with it. Our olfactory bulb<\/a> connects directly to the parts of the brain that link memory with emotion, after all.<\/p>\n On the scale of quirked-up celebrity tell-alls, where will Swinton\u2019s land? It\u2019s certainly less conventional than recent bestsellers like Prince Harry\u2019s Spare<\/a> or even Trisha Paytas<\/a>\u2019s upcoming Crying on the Kitchen Floor<\/a>. But it\u2019s no Macaulay Culkin\u2019s junior<\/a>. Furthermore, the format is precedented. The BBC<\/a> told the entire history of humanity in 100 objects. Regardless, Swinton is stoked to embark on this project. \u201cI can tell you that when I go home on Monday to Scotland, I\u2019m entering something that I\u2019ve been looking forward to for about 15 years \u2014 which is a period of my life when I do something different,\u201d Swinton told press at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t quite say what it is, but I can say I\u2019m not shooting a film for the rest of this year. I want more time.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n