A debut novel by a HarperCollins UK editor goes to Putnam, former Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III sells a memoir to Atria, Random House buys NBA winner Tiya Miles’s latest, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster said it was working with the author on how to revise her 1999 book "Lucky" after Anthony Broadwater was cleared of the assault it describes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2021-12-01 22:20:50 UTC ]
Lucky, Alice Sebold's memoir of her rape as a college student, is being pulled from shelves following the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-01 12:52:26 UTC ]
Scribner has responded to the news that Anthony Broadwater has been cleared of the crime at the centre of Lucky by ceasing to distribute the bookAlice Sebold’s publisher Scribner is pulling her 1999 memoir Lucky from shelves after a man was cleared of the rape at the heart of it.Anthony... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-01 10:52:48 UTC ]
The comedy legend responsible for “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein” has written a memoir with the cheer and zip of a one-liner. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-01 10:00:02 UTC ]
Siena and her artist-husband Mark revisit her 2006 young readers memoir 'To Dance' in 'Tiny Dancer', a new and more expansive autobiographical work for older readers on her passion for dance and her career in ballet. An eight-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after the author identified him as her attacker in an assault she described in her memoir “Lucky.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-30 23:51:15 UTC ]
An anonymous academic’s memoir about his underground mission to save flowers from extinction, The Orchid Outlaw, has gone in a 24-hour pre-empt to John Murray. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-30 09:54:47 UTC ]
What all comes together to make a food memoir good? A combination of food, context, history, voice, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-11-26 11:34:00 UTC ]
Robert Graves (1895-1985) is now probably best-remembered for two prose works: his 1929 memoir Goodbye to All That, about his experience fighting in the First World War, and his 1934 novel I, Claudius, set in ancient Rome. But Graves was also a highly influential poet – and theorist of poetry […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-11-24 15:00:55 UTC ]
The anthropologist Nastassja Martin has written a slender but expansive book in which she grapples with the physical and philosophical fallout of a near-death experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-24 10:00:04 UTC ]
In April, back when a few Cuomosexuals still roamed New York, the Times Union published interviews with anonymous current and former Cuomo staffers claiming they were given tasks related to Cuomo’s memoir about the COVID-19 pandemic, American Crisis, for which Cuomo had received a whopping $5... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-23 18:37:46 UTC ]
Edith Schloss’s memoir recounts an era of great creative vitality and the time she spent with Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli and others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-21 10:00:00 UTC ]
On Sunday night, both the 2020 and 2021 winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize accepted their awards in an in-person ceremony—including Chanel Miller, who won the 2020 Prize for nonfiction for her memoir Know My Name. Dayton, Ohio is the hometown of Brock Turner, who was convicted of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-19 18:22:33 UTC ]
Jocko Willink hits #10 on the hardcover fiction list this week with 'Final Spin', Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich lands at #11 on our hardcover fiction list with her latest, 'The Sentence,' and Will Smith, the Academy Award-nominated actor and Grammy-winning rapper’s memoir is an instant... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Odenkirk's "highly entertaining and heartfelt memoir" has been signed by Hodder Studio. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-17 17:45:59 UTC ]
“Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone,” his latest collection, erodes the boundaries between fiction, memoir and essay. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-16 19:53:17 UTC ]
Out this week, 'The Deeper the Roots' is an intimate, personal story of defying odds, helping others do the same and making history along the way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-16 14:36:39 UTC ]
In “The Genius Under the Table,” the artist and writer Eugene Yelchin recalls his boyhood in 1970s Leningrad. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-12 20:41:15 UTC ]
Writer Christina Patterson returns with a memoir about family, mental illness, cake and fortitude. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-12 05:08:47 UTC ]