Dialogue Books has acquired A Working-Class Family Ages Badly: A Memoir of Love and Life Between Two Pandemics by Juno Roche. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 17:09:37 UTC ]
Acclaimed designer and thought leader Cheryl D. Miller shares her decades-long quest for design justice. Cheryl D. Miller is an acclaimed New York communications designer, artist, and theologian. She is the author of the memoir Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology to Her Asian Island Mother and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-12-17 08:00:08 UTC ]
The 44th president of the United States does more than defend his legacy; he shares the values that have animated his life and political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-15 00:02:29 UTC ]
The 44th president of the United States does more than defend his legacy; he shares the values that have animated his life and political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-15 00:02:29 UTC ]
The 44th president of the United States does more than defend his legacy; he shares the values that have animated his life and political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-15 00:02:29 UTC ]
Lit Lists Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-12-14 20:55:17 UTC ]
Apologies, but I have to begin my introduction to this list of books by briefly mentioning my own book; shout your aggrievance about this to the heavens if you must. Writing my book, which is a hybrid of memoir and reporting about my dog, was difficult for me at times, because I’m not used to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-12-11 12:00:43 UTC ]
Don Winslow sells a trilogy to William Morrow for seven figures, Dey Street buys a memoir from Moon Unit Zappa, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
For a while, Melania Trump has teased that she might write a book after the Trump family exits the White House. I, like many, had mixed feelings. On one hand, it’d be interesting to see the Trump administration from the point of the view of the famously sullen First Lady; but on the other hand,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-10 18:18:04 UTC ]
“I personally know the author of this story you’re reading.” Oh look, a new story by Rachel Kushner. | Lit Hub Fiction Finding your craft: Wright Thompson on bourbon, books, and writing your way out of small-town America. | Lit Hub Memoir “He ripped his shirt open, revealing the bloody tooth,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-09 11:30:37 UTC ]
Seven Dials has acquired Dame Elizabeth Anionwu’s memoir Dreams From My Mother, a trailblazing nurse's story of how she overcame a background of shame, stigma and discrimination to dedicate her to life to fighting inequality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 10:06:03 UTC ]
Bonnier Books UK will publish The Right Sort of Girl, a "deeply personal" coming-of-age memoir from broadcaster Anita Rani. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 17:30:55 UTC ]
Take a look at previous What We’re Reading blogs for more reading inspiration.Don’t Worry, Little Crab by Chris HaughtonAll Chris Haughton’s delightful picture books for young children open with a quotation, which the story then evinces. His latest, surprisingly, quotes Anaïs Nin: ‘Life shrinks... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-12-08 12:08:02 UTC ]
Sinéad O’Connor's long-awaited and “revelatory” memoir Rememberings will be released by Penguin General imprint Sandycove in June 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 08:41:00 UTC ]
THE BASIC POLITICAL BACKDROP of Alex Niven’s New Model Island is that Britain is potentially only halfway through a 20-year period of Conservative governance, and that the union may lose several members before power changes hands at Westminster. But the book, a peculiar volume of polemic and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-07 16:00:40 UTC ]
Grigory Rodchenkov has won this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for his memoir The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin’s Secret Doping Empire (W H Allen). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 21:02:42 UTC ]
“I have never in my life met anyone with such an acute lexical feel for the specific word needed, for the hidden rhythm of a prose sentence.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on his beloved wife Aliya. | Lit Hub Memoir “I am no longer acquainted with the people who made drug ingestion easy, or free, or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-03 11:30:56 UTC ]
Doreen Cunningham has won £10,000 for her memoir Soundings: A Journey with Whales at this year's Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 05:13:41 UTC ]
Booksellers reported a significant drop in customer traffic and a commensurate drop in sales, but online orders were way up, forcing bookstores to adapt. Barack Obama's memoir and Jeff Kinney's latest were the most popular titles over the Thanksgiving weekend at stores surveyed by 'PW.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive—a harrowing memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her stepfather—has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for development as a drama series. Recently heralded by the Washington Post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-02 20:31:46 UTC ]