The Booker prize-winning author’s new novel Lessons is ‘a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime’Ian McEwan’s “most epic book to date”, moving from the end of the second world war to the current pandemic and exploring the impact of childhood... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-19 12:00:11 UTC ]
“Gone to the Woods” is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-09 08:01:28 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, Maris Kreizman speaks with Mikel Jollett about his memoir, Hollywood Park. Hollywood Park is about Jollett’s experience growing up in a cult, and his escape and fallout from the childhood trauma he experienced. He talks about believing his life was normal as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-08 19:00:54 UTC ]
The fake author who fooled the publishing world is brought back to life in a diverting tale that treads familiar ground“Sometimes, a lie’s more truth than the truth,” drawls author JT Leroy, speaking down a crackling telephone line. This straightforward dramatisation of Savannah Knoop’s 2008... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-18 07:00:10 UTC ]