“The routine was not all that remarkable for her, but from the outside looking in, it felt momentous.” Mia Manzulli considers proximity, distance, and living next to Joyce Carol Oates. | Lit Hub Memoir “Octopuses had been known to demonstrate rudimentary intelligence, but Mather recognized this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-23 10:30:23 UTC ]
In the memoir “Rabbit Heart,” Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture’s insatiable thirst for other people’s tragedy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-23 09:00:45 UTC ]
Howard Norman talks to Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in twenty-five years. | Lit Hub In Conversation “If the infant is primitive so is its earliest vice, jealousy—probably the most innate vice of all.” The late Elspeth Barker on the most human of experiences. | Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-20 10:30:01 UTC ]
Former nun Catherine Coldstream shares the story of her 12 years at a Carmelite monastery in a debut memoir out this month, 'Cloistered' (St. Martins), which earned a starred review from PW. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
‘If all things were equal, what were we even doing here? Why weren’t we lying on our living-room floors, watching the dance of the dust, today and every day?’ Memoir by Noreen Masud. The post A Flat Place appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2024-03-18 17:23:09 UTC ]
“Interior design’s aim is to make reading easy. It creates order out of chaos and bestows authority (warranted or not) on an author’s words.” On book design beyond the cover. | Lit Hub Art The accidental icon Lyn Slater on style, rebellion, and aging with attitude. | Lit Hub Memoir What do Leo... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-15 10:30:28 UTC ]
Which cookbook or foodie memoir would you like your book club to discuss and make the food from? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-13 17:00:00 UTC ]
Leslie Jamison’s new memoir Splinters follows the aftermath of divorce and the awakening of motherhood, but it explores desire more than it does any kind of death. Jamison wants to make meaning, to connect, to love, to feel, to mother, to write, and to revise her life endlessly. There are losses... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
“I am fascinated by the mismatch of these two systems, the fact that we can occupy two temporal spaces simultaneously…” Grace Loh Prasad on finding meaning in the space between Chinese and Western astrology, and what it means to remember her translator father. | Lit Hub Memoir Jennifer Croft on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-08 11:30:08 UTC ]
The veteran tech journalist is promoting her memoir with tech bros like Sam Altman. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2024-03-06 10:50:00 UTC ]
A new mystery from the Queen of Irish detective fiction, a memoir by RuPaul, and a trippy, shifting narrative set in Prague all round out today's new releases. Which ones are you thinking of picking up? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-05 12:30:00 UTC ]
Chronicling the high-heeled path to drag-queen superstardom, the new memoir also reveals a celebrity infatuated with his sense of a special destiny. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-05 10:00:18 UTC ]
Lily Meyer recommends books that recollect personal experience without being prescriptive. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2024-03-01 17:00:00 UTC ]
“These girls thought themselves saints of something, and I nodded and kneeled.” Emmeline Cline on eating disorder memoirs and the contagion of identification. | Lit Hub Memoir Steven W. Thrasher on the murder of journalists in Gaza and the loss of critical American voices in journalism: “What... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-28 11:30:35 UTC ]
Today's new releases include a follow up to Tommy Orange's THERE THERE, a memoir of grief, a secret, anti-Confederacy spy society, and more. Which ones will you TBR? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-02-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
“I was still reporting to my father, the things I had read and all that I had remembered.” Amitava Kumar on family, loss, and resonating with the words of other writers. | Lit Hub Memoir “Even in the worst of times, humans have a way of coming together to lighten the load and provide hope […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-27 11:30:51 UTC ]
What’s Aisha Sabatini Sloan reading? Diana Arterian on the author’s nightstand. | Lit Hub Criticism “The intimacy I feel with what my home once was cannot be reconciled with what downtown has become.” Emma Dries reflects on her childhood home and how 9/11 changed downtown Manhattan forever. |... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-22 11:30:18 UTC ]
“I’ve been prank-calling Justin Torres for like two decades,” says the poet and performer, whose new book is called “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-22 10:00:27 UTC ]
In today's new releases, there's an epic story of a conjuror-made safe haven in 1830s St. Louis, a feminist retelling of Zorro, a Cambodian food-based memoir of survival, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-02-20 13:30:00 UTC ]
It’s another Tuesday, and that means that a bevy of beautiful new books are out. And it’s a brilliant bevy indeed: below, you’ll find twenty-three new titles to consider that span an incredible range, including a raw new memoir from Leslie Jamison on motherhood and the self; the esteemed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-20 09:46:58 UTC ]