This year’s memoirs have kept ravenous consumers of celebrity culture well fed. Now, Barbra Streisand joins their ranks with “My Name Is Barbra,” a memoir released on Tuesday. At almost 1,000 pages, “it’s not a book you inhale,” the Times critic at large, Wesley Morris, writes. “Streisand is poring over, pouring out, her life.”Her childhood, in a Brooklyn housing project, was emotionally fraught. Her father died when she was just over a year old; her mother was emotionally unavailable, and her stepfather was distant.

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Persons: Prince Harry plumbed, Britney Spears, Elliot Page, Patrick Stewart, Henry Winkler, Kerry Washington, Pamela Anderson, Barbra Streisand, “, ”, “ it’s, Wesley Morris, Streisand, Fanny Brice, Marlon Brando, Pierre Trudeau Organizations: Paris Hilton, Greenwich Village, Canadian Locations: Brooklyn