The year’s best books include the novel “James” by Percival Everett and a memoir by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2024-12-18 16:59:22 UTC ]
Dr. Guy Leschziner explores the science behind the more unsavory aspects of our personalities. | Lit Hub Science Sara B. Franklin on reading children’s lit in troubled times | Lit Hub Memoir What do we really need from our literary heroes? | Lit Hub Memoir “Every food tells a story, and like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-11 11:30:59 UTC ]
Many celebrities’ books are actually written by others, the UK writers’ union says, and it’s time they were acknowledgedThe Society of Authors (SoA) is calling on celebrities and the publishing industry to properly acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly those aimed at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-10 16:42:22 UTC ]
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard spent years in prison for helping to kill her mother. Now she's about to become a parent herself — and is out with a memoir about her childhood Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-12-10 11:00:49 UTC ]
Here are this week's bestsellers from the five biggest lists, including part one of Cher's memoir and THE SERVICEBERRY by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-05 12:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor, seems to inch closer and closer to running for mayor.He clearly hoped Mayor Eric Adams, indicted on corruption charges in September, would resign, triggering a special election. Cuomo, for now, seems less enthusiastic about taking on Adams directly.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-12-03 18:43:26 UTC ]
December's new mysteries and thrillers include a Japanese murder mystery, a true crime memoir of a woman raised by a serial killer, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
Cher discovered that mom Georgia Holt had inadvertently put 'Cheryl' on the birth certificate. Luckily, her memoir gets much juicier. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-11-26 01:23:22 UTC ]
One thing is clear from the get-go: Werner Herzog, the enigmatic German icon of all things Art, likes for things to be precise. He makes sure I know this within the first minutes of our meeting. He is in Paris for48 hours for the release of the French translation of his memoir Every Man for […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-25 09:57:37 UTC ]
Cher’s memoir is a valuable document of a young girl thrust into the adult world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2024-11-22 17:45:00 UTC ]
Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-11-21 10:00:06 UTC ]
Out of an impressive shortlist, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has won 2024’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Flanagan’s wide-ranging memoir and history weaves together H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, pre-war nuclear physics, his father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the American... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-19 22:15:16 UTC ]
"This is the kind of book that's hard to imagine until you're reading it: it doesn't seem possible, and then it is." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-19 13:00:00 UTC ]
In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-11-17 10:00:52 UTC ]
Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America. | Lit Hub Memoir Lili Anolik explores the tumultuous, iconic, and unmistakably literary friendship between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion. | Lit Hub Biography “I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-16 11:30:58 UTC ]
Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America. | Lit Hub Memoir “Goodness is neither wisdom nor wealth; ironically, like evil, in its purest form good is not instrumental, utilitarian, or even pragmatic.” Ed Simon on the Seven Deadly Sins and how good... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-15 11:30:28 UTC ]
Red Tower takes prolific romance writer Devney Perry’s spicy new romantasy, S&S lands a memoir by major Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Born in Tehran: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour, by Shohreh Laici Interviews [email protected] Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:04 In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-11-12 15:04:04 UTC ]
If you’ve read only one book about the Spanish Civil War, chances are it’s either Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls or George Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia. And if you’ve read only two, as to what they might be, I’d confidently push all my chips into the center of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-11-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
The latest thriller from Paula Hawkins, a new novel by Niki May, and an Indigenous environmental activist's memoir are among this month's selections from the nation's biggest book clubs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-11 05:00:00 UTC ]