With the help of a brilliant co-writer, a fully rounded picture may now emerge of the much-maligned royalNot since criminals were barred from profiting in this way can a publisher’s announcement of a memoir have united the British press in such disgust. Before that, even the gangster turned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-25 07:00:45 UTC ]
Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' goes to Knopf's Jenny Jackson, Prince Harry sold a currently untitled memoir to Random House, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Oscar-winner and all-around Renaissance woman Viola Davis is going to put her life story (so far) to paper. The actor will publish a memoir, Finding Me, with HarperOne. Davis will discuss her tumultuous childhood growing up in Rhode Island, including poverty and family strife, to her rise as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-22 15:04:57 UTC ]
Last week, Guto Harri, an anchor on GB News, in the United Kingdom, addressed a pressing news story: the racist abuse that Black English players faced following the final of the European soccer championships, which England lost, and the broader debate around the players’ practice of taking a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-20 12:38:46 UTC ]
Penguin Random House said the book, tentatively coming in 2022, would be “an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-19 20:26:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling, a "dazzling" literary memoir from Lily Dunn about her attempt to unravel the mysteries of her late father's life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-18 21:27:23 UTC ]
Graeme Macrae Burnet was picked out by the literary spotlight when his second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016. Published by small indie Saraband, it tells of a brutal triple murder in the remote Scottish Highlands in 1869 via witness statements, a memoir... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 17:48:55 UTC ]
Culture Adrian Aguilera (Mexican, b. 1981) and Betelhem Makonnen (Ethiopian American, b. 1972), untitled (a flag for John Lewis or a green screen placeholder for an America that is yet to be), 2020 (installation view). Printed standard flag fabric,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-07-15 19:45:53 UTC ]
Chicago’s memoir, “The Flowering,” looks back at the uphill battle to make it in the art world as a woman. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
In 'A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes,' filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia writes about losing both parents — and the one event his renowned father couldn't record: his own death. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-07-07 16:19:08 UTC ]
Essay Photos by Mai Al-Nakib / Courtesy of the author Civilizations, empires, dynasties, and monarchies end, leaving behind ruins of their fabled splendor. Traces of achievements become more or less decipherable, contingent upon the mercy of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-07-07 12:48:10 UTC ]
“Fox & I” is Catherine Raven’s memoir of her relationship with a bushy-tailed creature — no, not a dog. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-06 09:00:01 UTC ]
Months before Andrea Constand’s memoir about the Cosby case and its aftermath was set to be published, a Pennsylvania Court overturned his conviction for assaulting her and released him. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-02 13:52:59 UTC ]
On Tuesday, Donald Rumsfeld—who, as defense secretary under George W. Bush, was a driving force behind the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—died. Major outlets wheeled out pre-written obituaries. The AP’s, by Robert Burns, bordered on hagiography. Its headline initially declared Rumsfeld “a cunning... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-02 12:32:38 UTC ]
When Trump’s former national security adviser was told his proposed title had a sexual connotation, he reportedly told publishers their minds were "in the gutter." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2021-06-30 08:23:11 UTC ]
Learn about queer topics and history from a graphic history, a collection of letters, a memoir and more LGBTQ nonfiction books for Pride. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-06-29 10:38:00 UTC ]
Coronet has waltzed off with I Don’t Take Requests by DJ Fat Tony in a “significant” pre-empt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 01:16:26 UTC ]
I first came to poet Rajiv Mohabir’s work through his cutting meditation on why he will never celebrate Indian Arrival Day, which Guyana celebrates on May 5th to commemorate the arrival of indentured Indian workers in the Caribbean. In the essay for the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-06-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
Will Smith has revealed the cover of his memoir Will, published by Century this November, at a community block party in Miami. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-21 12:22:28 UTC ]
“Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir” finds the Nigerian-Tamil author considering their identity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-06-21 12:00:00 UTC ]