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Every week, The Thread tackles your book questions, big and small. Ask 

This week's question: What will happen with Prince's memoir?

 at a New York nightclub: "You still read books, right?"

That was his way of breaking the news that he had a memoir in the works, tentatively titled "The Beautiful Ones." It was scheduled to be released in the fall of 2017 through Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House. 

"We're starting from the beginning from my first memory, and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl," he said, referring to his 

 the book "one of the most anticipated memoirs in music history." Critics' hopes were high: Prince's editor at Spiegel & Grau was Chris Jackson, who had previously worked with Ta-Nehisi Coates on the award-winning "Between the World and Me."

After Prince's death last week, however, the future of the book is uncertain. His publisher had no comment. 

Esther Newberg, one of his literary agents, previously told the 

 that he had already submitted 50 pages. He was working on the book with 

https://twitter.com/DanPiepenbring/status/724675147840524289

Whether enough of a draft exists to move forward remains to be seen. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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