Dive into a tender coming-of-age memoir by Isaac Fitzgerald, a biography of Vladimir V. Putin and novels from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Bolu Babalola and Daniel Nieh. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-30 09:00:24 UTC ]
Solitary confinement is a form of torture that the prison system makes commonplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2022-06-26 10:00:00 UTC ]
Arceneaux, an astronaut on SpaceX’s Inspiration4 last September, describes how having cancer as a child changed her faith and the rest of her life in ‘Wild Ride: A Memoir of IV Drips and Rocket Ships’ (Convergent, Sept. 6). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching won the Orwell prize. Then, a year later, it became the centre of a storm that would engulf the lives of the author, her critics and dozens of people in the book trade. So what happened?At the end of March, a book that had been condemned to die came back to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-18 08:00:13 UTC ]
After publishing a tell-all memoir about her family’s struggles with undiagnosed mental illness, Lindsay Wong was surprised by their reaction when she moved back in with her parents during the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2022-06-17 15:51:56 UTC ]
Spiegel & Grau takes on actor Rob Delaney’s memoir about the death of his young son, Julia Fine sells a novel set in 18th-century Venice to Flatiron, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
A memoir of Ativan withdrawal, a British Jamaican coming-of-age on the streets of Bristol, a tour of the sensory world of the animal kingdom, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-16 09:00:27 UTC ]
Ada Calhoun hoped to finish a biography of O’Hara once started by her father, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Instead, she wrote a searching memoir about creativity and family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-15 02:06:51 UTC ]
“In a perversion of all laws of the universe, I’m about to read my father a story before bedtime.” Séamas O’Reilly on reading his memoir to the man who taught him to love books (and skipping over the hardest bits). | Lit Hub Memoir Lousy at first impressions: When tomatoes made their debut in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-11 10:30:34 UTC ]
In her memoir “Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me,” Ada Calhoun set out to write a poet’s biography and found a connection to her father instead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-09 09:00:19 UTC ]
The comedian’s memoir was funny. But when the new show based on it tries for something deeper, it sinks into bathos. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-08 02:00:06 UTC ]
In the memoir “James Patterson by James Patterson,” the best-selling author opens up — kind of — about how he came to be such a force in the literary world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-06 11:00:41 UTC ]
The actress who became America’s sweetheart in “Dirty Dancing” explores how her looks -- and her alteration of them -- affected her career Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-05 17:44:52 UTC ]
Charles McGrath’s “The Summer Friend” recounts happy days and the gut punch of an untimely death. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-04 09:00:03 UTC ]
In "Mean Baby," "Cruel Intentions" star Selma Blair discusses the very long road to her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis with charm and candor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-06-03 13:00:52 UTC ]
The best audiobooks 2022 has to offer includes everything from memoir to literary fiction and even poetry. Find your next listen! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-05-31 10:39:00 UTC ]
'Harvey Weinstein: My Story,' a memoir allegedly written by the convicted producer, went up for sale on Amazon on May 10 but was pulled Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-05-27 21:49:53 UTC ]
“It is a fact that if you are looking to raise llamas with another person, you are seriously considering a lifelong commitment to each other.” Aileen Weintraub on finding love in upstate New York. | Lit Hub Memoir When everyone in London was trying to learn Marilyn Monroe’s signature, sultry... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-27 10:30:44 UTC ]
An 18-year-old student and a 98-year-old survivor teamed up to write “Lily’s Promise,” a best-selling memoir of Auschwitz and its aftermath. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-26 09:00:09 UTC ]
This New York City Children’s Theater adaptation of Maya Angelou’s celebrated memoir faces the challenge of faithfully telling a story that encompasses a great deal of pain. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-25 20:59:11 UTC ]