Jerry Della Femina, an icon of the advertising industry whose memoir about Madison Avenue’s rollicking heyday provided fodder for the hit cable series Mad Men, has a new campaign: selling his home.Della Femina and his wife, former TV journalist Judy Licht, have put their Upper East Side... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-06-12 17:29:24 UTC ]
What if Jane Austen is actually the master of anti-romance? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on how Austen’s rushed endings undercut her reputation. | Lit Hub Criticism Living with a literary icon can teach some incredible lessons. Cory Leadbeater on his life-changing friendship with Joan Didion. |... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-12 10:30:38 UTC ]
From a memoir on the Afro Latinx experience in the U.S. to a graphic novel about crying, here's what we're reading in June. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-06-10 22:12:36 UTC ]
As a city kid, veterinarian Amy Attas had big dreams of roaming the countryside healing animals a la the classic “All Creatures Great and Small.” Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2024-06-10 13:18:31 UTC ]
Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-10 09:02:59 UTC ]
In his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the Hollywood hyphenate Griffin Dunne, best known for his role in Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” recounts his privileged upbringing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-09 09:02:20 UTC ]
The journalist on throwing up at school, his admiration for aid workers, and not being there for President BushBorn in Lancashire, Clive Myrie, 59 studied law before gaining a place on the BBC’s journalism trainee scheme. He became a foreign correspondent, winning a Peabody award in 2017 for his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-08 08:30:40 UTC ]
There are times when a writer encounters the work of a contemporary at the ideal time. In my case, this writer was John Kaag and the book was his 2018 philosophical memoir Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. I had been studying philosophy in graduate school, but had left to pursue... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-07 08:55:26 UTC ]
Ruth Whippman had three sons and a lot of questions. In her memoir “Boy Mom,” she hopes to offer parents some of the reporting she gathered on the road to understanding her children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-06 13:28:10 UTC ]
Pop culture feeds on romantic couplings, but we all know the truth about who keeps us alive. Our friends, what would ever we do without them? It is passionate platonic friendship that concerns Lilly Dancyger in her second book, First Love: Essays on Friendship. A collection of personal and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-06-06 11:00:00 UTC ]
Source Code: My Beginnings, out next year, will include ‘some of the tougher parts’ of the entrepreneur’s early lifeBill Gates has announced that he will be telling his “origin story” in a memoir due to be published next year.Source Code: My Beginnings will cover the businessman and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-04 16:02:08 UTC ]
Reading Anna Akbari’s memoir of online manipulation, you think you’ve seen it all — then you keep reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-04 14:30:08 UTC ]
Two interlocking thrillers, demonic possession in the suburbs, a Cambodian memoir told through food, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-03 15:00:00 UTC ]
“As I became more entrenched in the White nationalist movement, I gained more power to cause more harm to people and society in ways I came to deeply regret.” R. Derek Black on the extreme ideology of their upbringing and how young White nationalists are programmed to hate. | Lit Hub Memoir “I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-30 10:30:30 UTC ]
A tribute to Paul Auster, featuring Siri Hustvedt, Don DeLillo, JM Coetzee, and more. | Lit Hub “I’ve had to forgive myself for what I chose not to see. For choosing myself.” Nina St. Pierre on understanding and accepting a schizophrenic mother. | Lit Hub Memoir James Shapiro on Willa Cather and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-28 10:30:47 UTC ]
Caleb Carr, a military historian and bestselling author of "The Alienist," made his last book a touching memoir of life and love with a feline companion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-05-26 19:05:41 UTC ]
This memoir by a gay Appalachian man is about reckoning with a homophobic family but one full of love, forgiveness, and understanding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
The events will showcase writers and speakers from countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa to UK audiences, and feature up-and-coming UK writers selected as part of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 list.This specially selected event series brings together our work with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2024-05-24 10:51:02 UTC ]
I had a conversation recently with a friend whose debut memoir is coming out soon, about the dread he feels at the idea of his father reading his book. I think pretty much every memoirist faces a version of this critical moment—when we have to face the fact that all of the vulnerable, private... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-24 08:55:44 UTC ]
Poets write some of the best memoirs, and this one will have you feeling like you're in each of these cities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-22 11:00:00 UTC ]