In “The Wild Silence,” a sequel to her best-selling memoir “The Salt Path,” the British author contends with the illness and death of loved ones but finds solace outdoors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-06 09:00:08 UTC ]
On Friday, Politico published an excerpt from On the House, a forthcoming memoir by John Boehner, the Republican former House speaker, that, in Politico’s words, is the story of “how America’s center-right party started to lose its mind, as told by the man who tried to keep it sane.” The excerpt... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-04-05 12:13:42 UTC ]
William Morrow preempts a debut novel by Liz Stein, Michelle Tea sells a memoir about the reproductive industrial complex to Dey Street, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Monoray is to publish Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum, a "hilarious" memoir on the trials and tribulations of motherhood from comedian Lucy Beaumont. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-01 13:58:38 UTC ]
Faber has pre-empted music industry veteran Tony King’s memoir on a nine-minute video submission. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-01 07:02:00 UTC ]
Lit Lists Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice. Now it’s your turn... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-31 20:04:23 UTC ]
In “Beautiful Things,” the president’s son addresses issues that shaped his life and father’s campaign Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-31 07:45:04 UTC ]
Manifesto will chart the first Black Booker prize winner’s 40-year journey to literary centre-stage and encourage others to pursue creative fulfilmentBernardine Evaristo, the first Black woman to win the Booker prize, is writing a memoir about how she “moved from the margins to centre stage”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-03-27 09:00:08 UTC ]
In “Plunder,” a memoir by Menachem Kaiser, the author tries to repossess a building owned by his grandfather before the war and discovers a history he knew nothing about. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-16 09:00:06 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald reexamines his father’s legacy in this fascinating blend of family memoir and moral reckoning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-13 14:00:00 UTC ]
Back in January 2018, freelance journalist Mason began work on a new novel in the little shed in her back garden in Sydney. She already had two books under her belt with HarperCollins Australia, a memoir of early motherhood—the brilliantly titled Say it Again in a Nice Voice—and her début novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-12 23:02:14 UTC ]
Walker Books is to publish Sticky McStickstick, a new personal memoir picture book from Michael Rosen, illustrated by Tony Ross, exploring Rosen's personal experience of illness and recovery from Covid-19. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-12 15:54:55 UTC ]
A few months ago my friend Nick Lyons, long admired for books about his passion for fishing, published a beautiful memoir, Fire in the Straw. Reading the book has underscored, in a personal way, the gap between life and literature that so many of us take for granted. I’m familiar with quite a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-12 09:48:56 UTC ]
But “Between Two Kingdoms,” her memoir of cancer and its aftermath, is striking a chord with readers who are enduring ordeals of their own. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-11 10:00:03 UTC ]
Interviews Photo by Sonette Watt Stephanie McKenzie is a poet and scholar who works for the English Programme at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her scholarly work has traced the flourishing of Indigenous literature in... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-09 21:39:45 UTC ]
In the memoir “Model Citizen,” Joshua Mohr recounts a life of substance abuse, real love and “cheery nihilism.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-09 10:00:09 UTC ]
He took his British brand of satire to nightclubs, TV, film (“This Is Spinal Tap”) and National Lampoon. But a memoir led to a sex-abuse accusation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-05 19:48:46 UTC ]
Ecco goes big on a debut novel, Kal Penn sells a memoir to Gallery, Brittney Cooper sells seven for seven figures to Scholastic, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
Comedy writer and actor Daisy May Cooper has written a "wonderful and ultimately uplifting" memoir, Don't Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her, to be released by Penguin Michael Joseph. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-02 18:28:11 UTC ]
In “Amoralman,” the sleight-of-hand artist Derek DelGaudio turns to philosophy in an attempt to understand the nature of reality and deception. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-02 16:45:00 UTC ]