The Hudson Valley-based Golden Notebook Bookstore will launch its publishing press next year with author Abigail Thomas's memoir 'Still Life at 80: The Next Interesting Thing.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Compiled from interviews he gave to a close friend, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” sheds light on the self-doubt of the seemingly imperturbable Hollywood star. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-16 18:47:52 UTC ]
"The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man" draws on reams of interview transcripts rediscovered after Paul Newman's death. Here's how it came together. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-10-16 13:00:47 UTC ]
Compiled from interviews he gave to a close friend, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” sheds light on the self-doubt of the seemingly imperturbable Hollywood star. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-16 09:00:11 UTC ]
Flatiron signs a novel by Whiting Award winner Caitlin Greenidge, Legacy Lit nabs a memoir by podcaster Jonathan Conyers, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Prince Shakur’s debut memoir When They Tell You to Be Good starts with an argument between him and his mother which recalls the image of his father’s murder, a man he never got to know. In unflinchingly honest detail Shakur traces his own journey of self actualization as a queer, Black Jamaican... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-10-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
Her win also marks the ascendancy of the memoir as the leading genre of our time. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2022-10-09 17:07:05 UTC ]
“A woman is a useful symbol for the splay of land on which such a free man saunters.” Rachel Richardson on Thoreau, running, and the pleasures of not quite knowing where you’re going. | Lit Hub Memoir In praise of multiple narrators: Rubén Degollado recommends Dawnie Walton, Tommy Orange, Juan... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-07 10:30:18 UTC ]
Jada Pinkett Smith's memoir will take readers on 'a rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-10-06 19:59:48 UTC ]
The French writer, who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, blurs the line between fiction and memoir with spare prose she has characterized as “brutally direct.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-06 16:13:27 UTC ]
“Cheever drank. Roth womanized. My grandfather wrote quietly in his office for 60 years.” Alison Fairbrother on learning lessons—in writing and life—from her grandfather, E.L. Doctorow. | Lit Hub Memoir Nina Totenberg reflects on her long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of “small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-06 10:30:07 UTC ]
As Tony Montana would probably say if he were a literary agent: In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the memoir. That’s right! Al Pacino is reportedly in talks to sell his first memoir […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-05 14:49:52 UTC ]
David Ulin talks with Lynne Tillman about "Mothercare," her memoir on managing her mother's decline — just as he begins a similar journey. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-29 13:00:09 UTC ]
“Love and writing are the only two things in the world that I can bear, the rest is darkness.” Read from Annie Ernaux’s lovelorn 1988 diary. | Lit Hub Memoir Why do we overuse (ecstatic!! hyperbolic!!!) language? Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza investigates. | Lit Hub The slow decline of glory:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-27 10:30:29 UTC ]
Companies providing ghostwritten autobiographies for people wanting to share histories have seen surge in trade since CovidBrian Lewis grew up on a tough council estate after arriving in Britain as part of the Windrush generation. At the age of eight he developed an interest in chess and joined... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-09-24 14:00:06 UTC ]
Random House and Celadon announce upcoming editions of the House Select Committee’s January 6 report, Currency takes on a memoir by YouTuber and former banker Gary Stevenson, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
“It took months of OCD treatment and two Brené Brown books to understand there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in writing—there are only decisions.” Elissa Bassist reflects on treating her writers’ block by treating her OCD. | Lit Hub Memoir Sometimes, altering the canon is a good thing: How The Rings... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-16 10:30:58 UTC ]
Anne Heche died in August of injuries she sustained from a fiery car crash. She published her first memoir, "Call Me Crazy," in 2001. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-15 21:01:10 UTC ]
Javier Zamora talks about "Solito," his harrowing memoir about journeying from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied 9-year-old. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-15 14:00:30 UTC ]
Jann Wenner might just as accurately have called his doorstop of a memoir “I Am Very Rich, and All My Friends Are Extremely Famous.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-09-15 13:55:59 UTC ]