On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Pam Mandel, whose book, The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel, is out from Skyhorse Publishing. The book charts Mandel’s travels abroad as a young woman trying to figure out... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-29 09:48:53 UTC ]
While undoubtedly personal, Tyson’s memoir offers an accounting of how far we’ve come — and how far we still must go. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-27 15:38:06 UTC ]
As a trans person, I spent most of my life with my head in a book imagining other lives, other bodies, and other histories. In some ways, my memoir is an amalgamation of all the books that kept me curious, kept me thinking it was worth it to keep going. Sometimes it was to dream […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-26 09:48:49 UTC ]
Charles Wheelan's "We Came, We Saw, We Left" charts the Wheelan family's frantic global "gap year" — infections, iffy street food, tantrums and all. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-22 18:26:12 UTC ]
The legendary developer’s new memoir brought back poignant memories of one of his most famous games—and of the hours I played with my dad. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2021-01-22 12:00:00 UTC ]
Aster, part of Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired The Insomnia Diaries: How I Learned to Sleep Again by journalist Miranda Levy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 14:19:20 UTC ]
Emily Rapp Black lost her toddler to Tay-Sachs disease. She talks to a fellow griever about 'Sanctuary,' her follow-up memoir about rebuilding a life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-19 15:00:19 UTC ]
Transworld is publishing the "raw and emotional" story of broadcaster Kate Garraway, in which she writes about her husband Derek Draper’s long fight against Covid-19 and the devastating impact it continues to have on him and on their family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-19 14:42:53 UTC ]
Ebury Press has signed an “inspirational” memoir from former SAS trooper and air-accident survivor Jamie Hull. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 07:42:38 UTC ]
In a ruling last week, a federal judge said he will allow the former Trump National Security Advisor to conduct discovery on whether Trump administration officials acted in bad faith in holding up the pre-publication review of Bolton's memoir 'The Room Where It Happened.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
When white supremacist mobs threaten democracy: David Zucchino on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and the Capitol Insurrection of 2021. | Lit Hub Politics Navigating the intricacies of race and the violence of antiblackness: Nadia Owusu reflects on her early years in America. | Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-16 12:30:01 UTC ]
She also wrote a memoir about her parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 14:46:04 UTC ]
What if the stories we tell in order to live happen to be conspiracy theories? William J. Bernstein on the evolutionary origins of collective delusion. | Lit Hub History Refugee, resident, dissident: Yiyun Li introduces Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir about her stay in a Chicago psychiatric... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 11:30:00 UTC ]
Explore the myriad powerful stories through visual storytelling and these graphic memoirs and true stories by women, including The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-13 11:38:00 UTC ]
Nadia Owusu’s beautiful and unsettling memoir is an attempt to understand what it means to be rooted and rootless. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-13 10:00:00 UTC ]
Based on Joanna Rakoff's memoir of working for JD Salinger's agent, the film lacks some of the wit but none of the heart of Joanna's story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-01-13 01:19:06 UTC ]
Actress Dame Eileen Atkins, aged 86, will publish her memoir with Virago in October 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 19:09:03 UTC ]
Today, Haruki Murakami celebrates his 72nd birthday—and we’re celebrating by diving into his recorded interviews. Murakami rarely gives interviews, but the ones he does are packed with insight into how he approaches the writing process. His memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running digs... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-12 18:27:48 UTC ]
The acclaimed actor’s memoir takes us far from Hollywood to his Irish childhood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
“The world will come between you,” writes Marcos Gonsalez in the prologue of his memoir Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land. The you here refers to both the author and his father, an immigrant from Mexico, captured in a photograph from the author’s childhood. “Hundreds of years of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-12 12:00:00 UTC ]