“Don’t Forget Us Here,” by Mansoor Adayfi with Antonio Aiello, is the memoir of a Yemeni man who claims he was kidnapped in Afghanistan, sold to the C.I.A. and sent to the detention camp in a case of mistaken identity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-17 09:00:05 UTC ]
In 2008, I published my first book, Please Excuse My Daughter, a memoir about my mother and me and how I grew up, and it dipped a little into my mother’s family’s history, which was rich and interesting. Her mother’s uncle, Sam Golding, developed the neighborhood of Rego Park in Queens during... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-08-16 08:49:26 UTC ]
Yellow Kite has signed Hope is Coming, Louise Blyth’s “extraordinarily powerful” memoir of grief, gratitude and enlightenment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-16 07:57:45 UTC ]
In “I Live a Life Like Yours,” Jan Grue, a Norwegian professor, writes of living with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-15 09:00:03 UTC ]
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishingIt started with a tweet. Kate Clanchy, author of Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me posted on her Twitter account that a reviewer on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-13 13:51:20 UTC ]
Icon has landed journalist and debut author Marianne Eloise's memoir of life with obsessive compulsive disorder and autism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 20:18:23 UTC ]
Headline will publish the memoir of Tarana Burke, the founder and activist behind the "Me Too" movement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 20:11:16 UTC ]
The “Saturday Night Live” comedian’s “This Will All Be Over Soon” looks back at her beloved cousin’s cancer diagnosis and death. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
Yesterday morning, Rita Glavin—an attorney for Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, who has vigorously defended her client (including in a fifty-one-minute live interview on CNN) since a state report concluded that he sexually harassed eleven women—came out swinging again in a virtual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-08-11 12:45:23 UTC ]
Hollywood. It’s one of those locations—it’s hard, somehow, to call it a concrete place—that conjures up all sorts of archetypes: the ruined writer, egomaniacal director, sleazy executive, out-of-control star. In writing my memoir Always Crashing in The Same Car—a book with elements of criticism,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-08-11 11:00:00 UTC ]
The pandemic memoir “American Crisis” has become a financial and ethical headache for Penguin Random House, dragging the company into the scandals that prompted the governor’s resignation announcement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-10 22:21:07 UTC ]
Poet and teacher has apologised for ‘overreacting’ to scrutiny of book’s portrayals of autistic pupils and children of colourKate Clanchy is rewriting her critically acclaimed memoir after widespread criticism of her portrayal of her pupils, particularly children of colour and autistic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-10 18:58:54 UTC ]
In “Blind Man’s Bluff,” James Tate Hill opens up about the measures he took to avoid admitting that he had lost his eyesight. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-05 09:00:03 UTC ]
She took the music seriously at a time when not many writers did. Among her books was a memoir of her life with one of its biggest stars, Jim Morrison. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-04 22:08:44 UTC ]
Canongate has landed Time on Rock, an outdoor climbing guide and memoir of self-discovery by Anna Fleming. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-04 21:31:00 UTC ]
Claire Wilcox has won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2021 for her "vivid" memoir Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Bloomsbury). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-04 21:28:36 UTC ]
In his memoir about being drafted into the Vietnam War, Jeff Danziger lays bare the futility and waste, as well as his own naiveté. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-08-03 20:35:22 UTC ]
Gina Frangello had a suspicion there was a hunger to talk about women who break the rules. In advance of the release of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism and Treason, she admits after some prodding, “I got more letters from women before this book came out than I ever received for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-07-30 11:00:00 UTC ]
Filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia brings his memoir about his father, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, and mother, Mercedes Barcha, to the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-07-29 20:18:15 UTC ]
Buzzy new novels from Alexandra Kleeman, Leila Slimani and Stephen King, Billie Jean King’s memoir and plenty more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-28 17:14:59 UTC ]