The portrait is stern, defiant, of bountiful hairline. Shot by Ramona Rosales for the cover of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, it planted a flag in the golden Californian soil and hung a shark-tooth necklace around the decrepit institution it set out to eviscerate. Tiled in your local Barnes &... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-03 15:21:13 UTC ]
Carolyn Forche remembers the late, great poet Charles Simic. | Lit Hub Nerds, jocks, and a secret society: Will Schwalbe recalls the start of an unlikely friendship at Yale. | Lit Hub Memoir Bruce Krajewski unpacks the criticism of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-02 11:30:14 UTC ]
Raja Shehadeh’s highly personal memoir probes a relationship that might have been. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-03-02 10:00:15 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Athena Dixon’s memoir in essays The Loneliness Files, forthcoming from Tin House this fall. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: In Spring 2020, the world as we knew it ground to a halt at the start of the COVID pandemic—streets emptied,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-28 15:00:10 UTC ]
Blur guitarist Graham Coxon had fame and fortune, but hated the attention. His sharp memoir 'Verse, Chorus, Monster!' documents his struggles and recovery Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-24 14:00:20 UTC ]
I'm recommending eight Peruvian books in translation, from surrealist short stories to creative memoir to bloody historical fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-22 11:33:00 UTC ]
Hot off the presses: new books from Rebecca Makkai, Nona Fernández, and more! * Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You (Viking) “This psychological thriller hits all the high notes, complete with at least a few revelations you won’t see coming.” –Good Housekeeping Erica Berry, Wolfish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-21 09:56:59 UTC ]
The departing Scottish first minister has already said she plans to write about her time in office, and publishers are showing keen interestPublishers will be clamouring to buy a memoir by Nicola Sturgeon, with any deal expected to involve a six-figure advance, literary agents have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-18 08:00:35 UTC ]
Heather Gay, one of the 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,' makes her debut with the memoir 'Bad Mormon,' the #1 book in the Mountain region of the U.S. Plus two February book club picks hit our lists: 'Someone Else’s Shoes' by Jojo Moyes and Sadeqa Johnson’s 'The House of Eve.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Stan’s new series adapted Rebecca Starford’s memoir gives brutal and honest insight into the consequences of bullying. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2023-02-17 02:14:58 UTC ]
Bad Behaviour author Rebecca Starford and the team behind a dramatisation of her memoir reflect on how they recreated her frightening account of her elite boarding schoolGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Rebecca Starford was 14 she spent a year living in the bush as part of an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-14 14:00:16 UTC ]
In her memoir “The Critic’s Daughter,” Priscilla Gilman recounts her life with intensely intellectual — and very different — parents. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-13 10:00:09 UTC ]
His masquerade — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the film “Europa Europa” — saved his life. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-11 22:40:33 UTC ]
Super Bowl winner Malcolm Jenkins sells a book about his life on and off the field to S&S, and Viking buys a memoir by Barbra Streisand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Beloved dad-rocker Jeff Tweedy is no stranger to publishing: he has two previous titles under his belt about his life in music, one a memoir of his time with Wilco, the other about the art of songwriting. (Perhaps my favorite bit of Tweedy literalia, though, is his appearance as a character in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-09 16:20:44 UTC ]
Davon Loeb’s debut memoir The In-Betweens follows the story of his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood as a biracial young man growing up between various cultures, races, and identities. Loeb grows up with a Black mother and a white, Jewish father. In school, he is one of the few Black... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-02-09 12:00:00 UTC ]
Luckily for us, the celebrity memoir genre is rife with tantalizingly tales from stars past and present. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2023-02-09 10:45:21 UTC ]
'My Name Is Barbra,' the memoir that superstar Barbra Streisand said she's been working on for more than a decade, will be published this fall. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-08 20:02:43 UTC ]
Nothing prepared me for revisiting the most painful times of my life – then being criticised for it. We need industry-wide guidelines to helpI called her Terri The World Gets. She was the outward-facing me, the woman I’d spent decades curating. And Terri The World Gets was about to be rocketed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-08 08:00:10 UTC ]
Barbra Streisand announced that her long-awaited memoir My Name Is Barbra will be coming out November 7, 2023 with Viking Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-07 16:37:49 UTC ]