In her essay collection, Leslie Jamison profiles outsiders and tests the limits of empathy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-04 02:41:53 UTC ]
LESLIE JAMISON IS NO STRANGER to tough questions. In fact, she’s undyingly attracted to them. Her three previous works — the novel The Gin Closet (2010), the essay collection The Empathy Exams (2014), and the memoir The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (2018) — all deal explicitly with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-03 12:30:39 UTC ]
Within the first week it was published, Bassey Ikpi’s essay collection I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, a collection of personal essays illuminating and encapsulating the experience of having mental illness, hit the New York Times bestseller list. What Ikpi depicts in I’m Telling the Truth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-09-12 11:00:01 UTC ]
Brown’s essay collection ‘The Pretty One’ brings an emotional honesty to a subject too often ignored. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-08-30 19:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic will publish Elisa Gabbert's essay collection, The Unreality of Memory, next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 12:15:00 UTC ]
Picador has bagged a new collection of essays by prize-winning writer and critic Olivia Laing about the importance of art. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: Ben Fountain's new essay collection, plus Kate Atkinson's spy thriller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired a collection of essays about growing up from women of colour magazine and collective gal-dem. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maeve Higgins, author of the wickedly funny new essay collection 'Maeve in America,' picks books by Aisha Tyler, Nora Ephron, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ally Carter sells her debut middle grade series, S&S buys a YA novel by NBA-winner Neal Schusterman and his son, MIT Press nabs an essay collection by Roxane Gay, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Putnam preempts a J.P. Pomare novel, McElderry Books buys a YA novel, cookbook author Shauna James Ahern sells an essay collection to Sasquatch, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Putnam invests in Rowley’s sophomore novel, Pegasus buys a memoir by a humanitarian aid worker, journalist Keah Brown takes an essay collection to Atria, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jessica Kingsley Publishers is releasing 30 Years of Social Change, a collection of original essays exploring the past, present and future of many of the helping or altruistic professions, to mark 30 years of publishing books on social justice and difference. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
California indie Heyday Books, which is best known as a publisher of regional titles, is departing from its standard fare with a new book called 'Our Dishonest President.' The essay collection, which Heyday crashed, is set to hit shelves on July 4. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Nikesh Shukla crowdfunds for a new essay collection, he talks about why young writers need to be given a platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster will this autumn publish a picture book version of Hillary Clinton's 1996 non-fiction title It Takes A Village. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Schumer's essay collection, 'The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo,' expected to be one of the big books of the summer, sold just under 40,000 hardcover copies in its first week on sale, according to BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Razorbill buys an essay collection from a BuzzFeed editor, a University of Texas prof sells an epic science fiction fantasy poem, Broadway actress Alexandra Silber takes a novel—and a memoir—to Pegasus, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scribner buys an essay collection from a prison inmate, Andrew Neiderman extends his V.C. Andrews gig at Gallery, Jenny Han sells the final Lara Jean book to S&S, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has pre-empted Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?, a collection of essays by journalist and blogger, Emily Clarkson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]