In her memoir “Seeing Ghosts,” the author recounts her mother’s death and her immigrant family’s numerous migrations, separations and losses, evoking the way grief entails a particular, perpetual sorrow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-24 09:00:06 UTC ]
HarperCollins Ireland has scooped a "unique" memoir by the warden of Skellig Michael, a remote Irish island. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-22 23:51:22 UTC ]
Georgina Pazcoguin’s biting memoir is full of melodrama. It also has an important message. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
The American Ballet Theatre star has written a thoughtful collection of essays that gives readers insight into what it means to defy categorization. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has acquired two titles from German filmmaker and storyteller Werner Herzog, including a memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 19:49:03 UTC ]
The German film director has announced two new books: a memoir and The Twilight World, about a remarkable second world war officerWerner Herzog is writing a book about Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender after the end of the second world war.The esteemed German... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-18 12:56:08 UTC ]
“Names for Light,” by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, is a memoir recounted through the stories of family members. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-18 12:41:21 UTC ]
Mirror Books has acquired worldwide rights from The Can Group to Christine McGuinness' first book A Beautiful Nightmare. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 11:33:49 UTC ]
As she releases her memoir "All In," tennis icon Billie Jean King discusses her career, her causes and "living truthfully." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-08-17 13:00:35 UTC ]
Fiona Sampson’s biography reads like a thriller, a memoir and a provocative piece of literary fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
“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 ]