A big-name picture book adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” goes to HarperCollins, Margaret Atwood brings a memoir to Doubleday, Sourcebooks picks up the memoir of the daughter of Gisele Pelicot, and more in this week’s book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
The multi-award winning feminist author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) has announced that she will be releasing her long-awaited memoir ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-12 19:59:13 UTC ]
The 85-year-old’s Book of Lives promises to lift the lid on her unconventional Canadian upbringing, prize-winning writing career, and the experiences that shaped her workMargaret Atwood has written the memoir her fans have long been hoping for, it has been announced.In Book of Lives, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 17:30:32 UTC ]
“I am determined to keep writing, it has never mattered to me more.” Hanif Kureishi on trauma, recovery and what it means to be a writer. | Lit Hub Memoir Just in time for Valentine’s Day: 25 writers explain the anatomy of a good sex scene. | Lit Hub Craft Pankaj Mishra on nationalism,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-11 11:30:21 UTC ]
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Justin Haynes (Ibis) Shane McCrae (New and Collected Hell: A Poem) Haley Mlotek (No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce) Maggie Su (Blob: A Love Story)... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-11 09:57:52 UTC ]
This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like oursAmazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that, given the appropriate level of parental... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 08:00:11 UTC ]
I’ve known Lauren Markham’s writing since her first book, The Faraway Brothers, came out in 2017. Then, a couple years ago, I got to know her a bit more as a person when a friend emailed the two of us and another writer to ask our thoughts on writing (and teaching) journalism versus memoir or […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-07 09:57:40 UTC ]
In Sarah Chihaya’s memoir Bibliophobia, we enter into the moment of her breakdown—an event that she has seen on her horizon since childhood, but also seemed impossibly remote. As a child of Japanese and Japanese-Canadian immigrants to the US, Chihaya’s parents “didn’t really believe in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-06 09:56:18 UTC ]
Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-01-31 13:00:00 UTC ]
Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life, Dorian Lynsky’s Everything Must Go, and Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-31 09:58:15 UTC ]
This searing memoir recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean—and find her ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-30 12:00:00 UTC ]
A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-01-30 10:05:04 UTC ]
It’s among the more playful matters on his mind in “Shattered,” a memoir of the injury that took away his ability to turn pages — but not his hunger to tell a story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-01-30 10:00:13 UTC ]
“Everyone writes about New York with so much tenderness, even when they are sick of it.” Kay Sohini discovers a literary New York (in graphic memoir). | Lit Hub Memoir Ruth Franklin on the connection between an obscure German noblewoman and Anne Frank: “One day, while I was looking over my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-29 11:30:02 UTC ]
At 84, Edmund White is ready to kiss (to put it mildly) and tell ... well, everything. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2025-01-28 16:56:52 UTC ]
By the time I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings hit shelves in the first days of 1970, buzz about the memoir had been building for some time. Newspaper stories about its author, Maya Angelou—a well-known dancer, singer, and political activist—had been teasing the book for years; both Ebony and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 09:57:54 UTC ]
A cozy fantasy bodyguard romance, a darkly funny memoir exploring the toll of sexism, a new detective duo, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-23 17:04:23 UTC ]
The memoir "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You" tackles the singer's tumultuous childhood and complicated relationship with her mother. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-01-22 11:00:49 UTC ]
Activist, Spy, and Icon Josephine Baker's memoir, a bookish memoir about mental illness and identity by a literature professor, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:30:00 UTC ]
This week's featured books include the follow up to IRON FLAME, new horror by 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, and a memoir by the most dangerous woman in Africa. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:00:00 UTC ]