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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN
“Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It’s a love letter. To life.
It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
The short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.
“A delightful surprise, full of stories that [haven’t] been shared on late night talk shows or made headlines over the years. It’s a wild ride to be sure, but if you enjoy McConaughey and all of the eccentricities and contradictions that come with him, it’s one you won’t want to miss.”—Texas Monthly
“A brilliant memoir . . . [Greenlights] is unmistakeably ‘a book that only Matthew McConaughey could have written.’ This is a good thing.”—The Times Magazine (UK)
“McConaughey’s own story is arguably more interesting than any character he has embodied on the silver screen over the decades.”—USA Today
“Delightfully voicey.”—GQ
“McConaughey’s approach to memoir is the opposite of careful, instead opting for pure candor. . . . Taken together, the stories in Greenlights paint the picture of someone who could not care less of what the world thinks of him, which has—not coincidentally—resulted in lots of people in the world liking the actor and his work.”—John Warner, Chicago Tribune
“At its best moments, Greenlights . . . delivers memorable life lessons.”—Pico Iyer, Air Mail
“Candid . . . Greenlights is more than an autobiography, far more than a comedy or a series of adventures. The author gives us a lively look at his life in and out of his movies and provides readers with an honest look at who he is.”—The Florida Times-Union
“McConaughey is a talented actor and a fine writer, but a total genius at living. He attacks life with an exhilarating ferocity. This is a wildly unexpected and delightful book you can’t just read, you have to experience.”—Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October
“It shouldn’t surprise you that this book is good, but it will surprise you just how good it is. Wise and entertaining, this is an inspiring memoir and how-to from one of the great outlaw philosophers and artists of our time.”—Ryan Holiday, author of The Daily Stoic
“A Renaissance man on the big screen, McConaughey shows he is the same on the page. Mystical and spiritual but mostly just wonderful, Greenlights is an inspired memoir that celebrates the idea that it’s the journey rather than the destination that will fulfill us.”—Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning
“Written with great intensity and rare candor, Greenlights is a whirlwind of wisdom that’s as singular and fervent as its author. Read the book, experience the behind-the-scenes adventures, then pursue your own greenlights full throttle.”—Shaka Smart, head coach, men’s basketball, The University of Texas at Austin
“I cannot recommend it highly enough.”—John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, co-author of Conscious Leadership
Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey In his memoir, “Greenlights,” the star of “Dazed and Confused” and “Dallas Buyers Club” shares lessons from a life in which he turned out. The second paragraph written in Matthew McConaughey’s new book Greenlights. More of a playbook than a memoir, Greenlights exemplifies the art of storytelling through real-life quests of finding, navigating and leveraging the true essence of one’s self. And then – sharing your experiences in hopes of making a difference. Greenlights is a remarkable first book from an already renowned artist. Kind of a mashup of Anthony Bourdain with Ernest Hemingway, McConaughey tells stories with the aplomb of accomplished raconteur. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. On sale October 2020. I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five.
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© Facebook Watch Matthew McConaughey discussed his relationship with his mom, which he writes about in his new book, while on Red Table Talk. Here's what they said.- Matthew McConaughey and his mom, Kay, appeared on the latest episode of Red Table Talk.
- They opened up about their eight-year-long rough patch.
- McConaughey wrote about his upbringing in his new book, Greenlights, which he discussed on the Oprah Conversation.
Matthew McConaughey and his mom, Kay, made a memorable appearance on the most recent episode of Red Table Talk, hosted by three generations of powerhouses: Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield Norris. Kay, now 88, is spending the quarantine in Texas with McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, and their three children: Levi, 12, Vida, 10, and Livingston, 7.
'It's been really lovely. I'm enjoying being around my grandchildren. Matthew is a very good son. I'm going to give myself some credit for raising him right,' Kay said. She added that she treats her grandchildren the same way she treated her sons, Matthew and his older brother, Mike 'Rooster' McConaughey. 'If they smart off to me, if doesn't turn out well,' she said, laughing.
Though the Interstellarstar and his mom are the picture of domestic tranquility right now, it wasn't always the case. If you've read Matthew McConaughey's new memoir, Greenlights, then you know there are things from his past that merit a trip to the Red Table—especially regarding his upbringing.
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The book opens with a vivid scene of McConaughey's parents physically fighting in front of 5-year-old Matthew, and then getting frisky. The scene encapsulates the McConaugheys' volatile relationship: Kay and her husband, James, were married three times, and divorced twice—all to each other. In 1992, James died while making love to Kay. 'His heart just stopped, you know? We had a party for him, kind of a celebration of his life,' Kay said.
Four years after her husband died, Kay and her son hit a low point in their relationship. The trouble began after McConaughey made 1996's A Time to Kill, and 'got famous.' According to McConaughey, Kay struggled with the transition to having a prominent son. Translation? She was speaking to the press.
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After their weekly Sunday phone calls, Kay would feed information about his private life to news outlets. 'Mother wasn’t answering the phone. A fan of my fame was answering the phone. I was trying to find my own balance with fame and stuff, and I would share things with her...some of the things I would share might show up in the six o’clock news three days later,' he said.
At one point, Hard Copy—a tabloid TV show—came to his childhood home in Texas. McConaughey was alerted to the appearance by a friend, and was shocked when he turned on the TV to find his mom giving a tour.
'Mom’s leading the camera going, ‘And there’s the bed where I caught him with Michelle...no big deal because she didn’t last. Over here’s the bathroom, of course I walked in oh him in there and caught him doing you know what before…’ and I’m over here going, ‘Holy sh*t, Mom,' he revealed. Reflecting on her actions today, Kay said that she was 'enjoying his fame more than [Matthew] was.'
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As the episode played, McConaughey called to confront her. 'Of course, she’s watching it too and I hear the same damn show in the background,' he said. Her defense didn't win him over: 'She goes, ‘I didn’t think you’d find out.'
After that breach in privacy, McConaughey felt that he needed to distance himself from his mom. Once his career was stabilized, they rekindled their relationship. 'My boat was built well enough that I didn’t think she could sink it and then I just took the reins off and said, ‘Mom, hit that red carpet. Talk to all of them, tell them all the stories you want’ and she’s been great about it since,' he said.
Luckily for us, McConaughey has reached the storytelling phase of his career. With his memoir, he invites us into his extraordinary life—and perhaps tells the story he didn't want his mom saying all those years ago.
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