Fiction Drawing inspiration from the writing of Lesley Nneka Arimah, Edwin Okolo creates a world of birth factories, colossal levees, secret labs, and New Biafra, where we find Ameli, Lotanna’s wife—because he chose her. Those colossal levees, rising... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-09-13 14:09:11 UTC ]
“Feeling afraid to obey the demands of your own heart? Is there anything more human?” Jennifer Finney Boylan considers Henry David Thoreau and the risks we take to live our full truth. | Lit Hub Memoir Who was Laurie Colwin, and what makes her (newly reissued) fiction so relevant today? | Lit... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-13 10:30:34 UTC ]
Anna Qu is the guest. Her new book, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, is out now from Catapult. From the episode: Anna Qu: I think I was trying to capture a couple of points. The first point is really arriving at a single moment of betrayal, and that betrayal was reporting […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-13 08:48:59 UTC ]
Wildfire has acquired Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret Through the AIDS Crisis, a memoir by Jill Nalder, the real-life inspiration behind the character Jill from Channel 4's "It’s a Sin". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-09 20:53:00 UTC ]
Grisham, also a former top aide to Melania Trump, to publish memoir containing ‘surprising new scandals’ in October The former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, also a former top aide to former first lady Melania Trump, will release a memoir in October. Related: ‘Bring it’:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-09 19:11:26 UTC ]
David Ulin read four of the recall candidate's books, from the jeremiad "Showdown" to the memoir "A Lot Like Me," and found not a writer but a brand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-08 13:00:05 UTC ]
Dawn Turner’s memoir gives a tutorial of urban decay, White privilege, poor city planning and the influence of fads and digital advances on Black urban teenagers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
In ‘Forever Young,’ the 75-year-old actress opens up about life before and after ‘The Parent Trap’ Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-05 12:00:00 UTC ]
Five years ago, when in her late twenties, Emma Gannon released her first book: Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online. It’s a funny and thoughtful memoir which charts her formative experiences on the internet as a Millennial woman born in the same year as the World Wide Web. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-03 14:05:09 UTC ]
Shawna Kay Rodenberg recounts her childhood in a religious sect and in rural Kentucky. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-03 12:00:00 UTC ]
Why did author Kate Clanchy get an opportunity to rewrite a memoir others called out as racist and ableist? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-09-03 10:34:00 UTC ]
A memoir from Congressman Jamie Raskin goes to Harper, Penguin signs Coll’s last Afghanistan book, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
At Ploughshares, Kat Chow discusses Seeing Ghosts, her memoir that examines grief and sorrow through the lens of three generations of her Chinese-American family. “I’ve always been drawn to writing about the body—our physical selves and how they reflect our inner lives—and how our bodies are an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-09-02 20:30:39 UTC ]
Hayley Mills, star of 'Pollyanna' and 'The Parent Trap,' is now 75 and has written a memoir about her life as a child actor under Walt Disney's watchful eye. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-02 13:00:20 UTC ]
This film about Misha Defonseca, author of a ‘memoir’ about escaping the Nazis and sheltering with wolves as a child, is propulsively watchable“Sometimes a story is so astonishing it’s unbelievable.” So said a Massachusetts radio presenter in the 90s, introducing Misha Defonseca, a local Jewish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-02 06:00:18 UTC ]
Shugri Said Salh’s memoir strives for an accurate – rather than sensationalized or simplified – account of growing up in, and then fleeing, Somalia. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-08-30 19:15:00 UTC ]
“Exodus, Revisited” offers new insights about a woman’s break from her Hasidic community. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-28 13:00:00 UTC ]
His acclaimed fiction and a memoir had a common theme: alcoholism. After becoming sober, he called his former besotted muse “Drunkspeare.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-28 11:13:30 UTC ]
“By the time I was born, the city had been conquered thrice, by the British, the Japanese, and the military junta. Three enemies to symbolize the three torments of the mind.” Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint on war, reincarnation, and the changing names of Myanmar. | Lit Hub Memoir Jeffrey Webb revisits... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-08-27 10:30:19 UTC ]
Levy's memoir trilogy concludes with "Real Estate," pondering happiness and a new kind of home. Unlike Rachel Cusk, she keeps herself in the picture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-08-24 15:00:41 UTC ]