In “Unsolaced,” Greta Ehrlich tells a story of personal discovery against the backdrop of the climate crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-12 10:00:06 UTC ]
“The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” by Gina Apostol, takes the form of a found memoir that has been picked apart by scholars. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-12 05:00:02 UTC ]
I first read Nadia Owusu’s debut memoir Aftershocks in June, as the United States—led by the white nationalist backed Republican administration—was several months into a still ongoing unchecked global pandemic which was disproportionately killing Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Americans.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
Comey’s “Saving Justice” is a revealing memoir that describes his feelings about Trump and his worries about the nation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-10 23:00:02 UTC ]
“Gone to the Woods” is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-09 08:01:28 UTC ]
IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Archive of American Folk Song dispatched its field workers in 10 different regions across the United States to solicit average Americans’ opinions about the bombing and FDR’s ensuing proposal for a declaration of war. A second round... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-08 18:00:08 UTC ]
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This time we’re talking to Abeer Hoque, author of the memoir Olive Witch, who’s teaching a two-week seminar on one of the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
Scribe is publishing a new B-format paperback edition of US president-elect Joe Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-08 03:07:33 UTC ]
Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir, recently reissued, recounts her time in a psychiatric ward and the people she met there. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-06 20:50:30 UTC ]
THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT is the opening section from chapter three of my book in progress, Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore, a memoir and critical study about growing up in my father’s Jewish bookstore. As Harelick and Roth Books and then J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-06 16:00:43 UTC ]
“W-3,” Bette Howland’s account of her institutionalization, in 1968, proceeds according to a simple binary: those who suffer are patients; those who don’t are not. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-01-05 20:23:25 UTC ]
Looking for a memoir by a Latinx author for the Read Harder challenge? This is a list of recommendations to get you started! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-05 11:31:00 UTC ]
'Maybe there are lessons to be learned from rule-breaking,' writes Richard Charkin, with a new memoir as his case in point. The post Richard Charkin: ‘Thank Goodness for the Rule-Breakers’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-04 13:04:57 UTC ]
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former first lady of the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-12-31 09:00:00 UTC ]
Want to feel hungry? Read Bryan Washington on his year in takeout orders. | The New Yorker “In the end, Chang’s trauma, and the trauma he inflicted on other people, becomes part of his public persona, while we simply carry ours.” Hannah Selinger on what—and who—David Chang’s memoir leaves out. |... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-23 11:30:13 UTC ]
New fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barack Obama’s accent game, a Wilco frontman’s memoir and romance by Vonnegut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-12-22 23:58:19 UTC ]
The Thursday Murder Club sees off titles by Barack Obama and David Walliams in chaotic week for Britain’s book tradeRichard Osman’s cosy mystery about a group of elderly sleuths, The Thursday Murder Club, has become the first debut novel ever to become the Christmas No 1, selling a remarkable... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-22 15:00:18 UTC ]
Greystone Books will publish Édith Blais’ memoir of being kidnapped and held hostage for 450 days in Burkina Faso at the hands of a militant group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 06:56:14 UTC ]
Continuing on the Barack Obama’s Favorite Media end-of-year march, the former President has released a 20-song playlist to accompany his memoir A Promised Land, composed of songs that recall memories of his time on the campaign trail and in the White House. There’s some Beyonce, some John... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-21 17:24:57 UTC ]
In this Read Harder Challenge post, we're recommending books for the task asking you to read a a food memoir by an author of color. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-21 11:31:00 UTC ]