This story was co-published by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. “Poor people” are “my people” Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has said. In his best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, he claimed a similar possessiveness, while at the same time... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-18 11:31:11 UTC ]
A life in five parts in a changing France is wrought powerfully on stage in this adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s book The Years Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2024-08-09 10:28:43 UTC ]
Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widelyIn addition to the excellent advice provided in your article on reading (The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books, 25 April), I would add the following. The old adage of not judging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-28 16:39:44 UTC ]
“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-09 19:42:28 UTC ]
PW spoke with the publishers bringing David Diop, Annie Ernaux, Yoko Tawada, and others to U.S. readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Her win also marks the ascendancy of the memoir as the leading genre of our time. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2022-10-09 17:07:05 UTC ]
The French writer, who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, blurs the line between fiction and memoir with spare prose she has characterized as “brutally direct.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-06 16:13:27 UTC ]
This morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” Annie Ernaux is the author of some twenty works of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-06 11:09:56 UTC ]
Annie Ernaux, 82, was cited for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-10-06 11:03:31 UTC ]
“Love and writing are the only two things in the world that I can bear, the rest is darkness.” Read from Annie Ernaux’s lovelorn 1988 diary. | Lit Hub Memoir Why do we overuse (ecstatic!! hyperbolic!!!) language? Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza investigates. | Lit Hub The slow decline of glory:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-27 10:30:29 UTC ]
In the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade by a “vehemently anti-Democratic Supreme Court,” publishers have reported higher sales of both front- and backlist titles about abortion and reproductive freedom. Among the titles in high demand are Annie Ernaux’s memoir Happening (which was recently... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-28 17:52:43 UTC ]