Pals, something incredible is coming and I’m not talking about the Messiah. Today, Penguin Random House announced that Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited memoir is finally slated for publication on November 7, 2023!!!
Babs’ autobiography has unofficially been in the works since 1984 (when Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who was an editor at Doubleday in her later life, asked to edit Streisands’ memoir). In 2015, Viking Press bought the book and teased that it would be published in 2017. Clearly, that did not come to pass and all Barbra fans (read: Jews) have been in limbo ever since.
All that to say: Today’s announcement has given a lot of people pretty big feelings and some have chosen to express themselves with some very funny tweets.
Here are some of our favorites:
1. This was our initial reaction too!!
babs book babs book babs book babs book babs book babs book babs book babs book babs book !!!! https://t.co/LGI4FTizBM
— sarah jae (@sarahjaeleiber) February 7, 2023
2. Fran is all of us right now.
Barbra Joan Streisand born April 24th, 1942, to Manny and Diana Streisand of 457 Schenecktedy Avenue, Brooklyn is releasing a memoir!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/OVKXMeQAoc
— 💫 (@heyjaeee) February 7, 2023
3. Mandy Patinkin is #1, no question.
she is way too classy for this but something i want out of the Barbra memoir is a small but significant section where she ranks or at least describes her ridiculously handsome history of leading men pic.twitter.com/W7kgQjhz11
— sarah jae (@sarahjaeleiber) February 7, 2023
4. The Jewish matriarchs are actually: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah AND Barbra.
We are getting the Queen Barbra version of The Bible… 1040 PAGES https://t.co/EOsQTpm0WY pic.twitter.com/CJZZtj7ePV
— Auntie JAME (@jamizfoshiz) February 7, 2023
5. Mother? Sorry… mother? Sorry…
Barbra Streisand finally releasing her memoir this year pic.twitter.com/6BRL1uNjlV
— soph (@beymatica) February 7, 2023
6. We’re still not over “The Funny Girl” drama, but this kinda helps.
Jonathan Groff realising he's going to have to teach Lea Michele to read before Barbra's book comes out in November… pic.twitter.com/QzUZjoBJcu
— Mark O'Donovan (@mrmarkodonovan) February 7, 2023
7. How did Barbra know what our faces will look like when we read her book?
Going to be a real page turner can’t wait! pic.twitter.com/mprRCowbt7
— Josh Scheer (@Joshscheer) February 7, 2023
8. Gut Yontiff!
Rosh Hashanah starts Sept. 15 but the high holidays don’t end until this book comes out https://t.co/VN7XyTR6he
— mattie kahn (@mattiekahn) February 7, 2023
9. “In a time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl called Barbra…”
All of us this November. https://t.co/ZjcK4GP4Ag pic.twitter.com/JXwBF0QiQJ
— Kevin Daly (@kevinddaly) February 7, 2023
10. My Name Is Barbra (Barbra’s Version).
Barbra’s second memoir: pic.twitter.com/tRxWa3eCwK
— Burnside Gooch (@akakarenwilson) February 7, 2023
