WHAT WOULD YOU DO if the person who hurt you most refused to say they were sorry? Could you forgive anyway? Best-selling author Susan Shapiro explores this universal question in her intriguing, insightful, all-too-relatable new book The Forgiveness Tour, out this past January. In her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-21 18:00:04 UTC ]
A syllabus of sorts for exploring some of the funniest books of all time by the funniest people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-19 10:00:27 UTC ]
Kristin Iversen profiles Patricia Lockwood, writer of crystalline sentences, really good tweets, and a new novel about much more than the internet. | Lit Hub Yemisi Adegoke grapples with what it means to be a “returnee” to Lagos, after growing up in the UK. | Lit Hub Memoir “Am I prepared? Is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-18 10:30:19 UTC ]
An excerpt from “Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment,” by Theo Padnos Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-16 13:32:26 UTC ]
“Blindfold” is the American journalist Theo Padnos’s memoir of his nearly two years in captivity and a meditation on resilience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-16 10:00:06 UTC ]
“Ticking Clock,” a new memoir by Ira Rosen, a former producer for the show, recounts the newsmagazine’s pathbreaking journalism and its culture of harassment and abuse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-16 10:00:05 UTC ]
In 'Between Two Kingdoms,' young cancer survivor Suleika Jaouad writes with fierce honesty about the false divide between the sick and the well. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-15 15:00:38 UTC ]
Actress and activist Evanna Lynch is publishing a "raw and compelling" memoir with Headline, exploring eating disorders and "the battle between perfection and creativity". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-15 11:29:21 UTC ]
Vanessa Springora’s memoir, Consent, electrified the French literary world. American readers will find it exhilarating. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2021-02-15 10:50:00 UTC ]
“Still, the best, most generative conversations mostly happen out of the public eye.” Wayne Miller on the hazards of talking poetry on social media. | Lit Hub As Gabriel Byrne watches his father’s decline, he wonders if it’s ever possible to be truly honest with himself. | Lit Hub Memoir “It... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-13 11:30:54 UTC ]
Michael Patrick F. Smith’s “The Good Hand” is a memoir about grinding work in the last days of the Bakken oil boom. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-12 10:00:02 UTC ]
Notes on Grief will recount the life of ‘a remarkable man of kindness and charm’ and the author’s struggle to absorb his loss during lockdown last yearChimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a memoir about the sudden death of her father in lockdown last year. Notes on Grief, by the Orange... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-11 14:18:53 UTC ]
TOVE DITLEVSEN’S first novel, A Child was Harmed, was sent back from the publisher with the accusation that she had “been reading too much Freud.” But Ditlevsen says she didn’t know who Freud was, a declaration that, 200-plus pages into her three-part memoir — a clear-eyed exploration of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-10 13:30:35 UTC ]
Patricia Lockwood followed up on her memoir “Priestdaddy” with “No One Is Talking About This,” a novel that explores the chaotic feel of the internet and the pain of personal loss. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-10 10:00:17 UTC ]
Beloved Mexican-American actor and restauranteur Danny Trejo’s first memoir, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood—which details Trejo’s path from drug addiction and incarceration in some of America’s most notorious prisons (including San Quentin, Folsom, and Soledad), to unexpected... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-09 21:03:44 UTC ]
An excerpt from “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,” by Suleika Jaouad Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-09 16:17:10 UTC ]
A list of nonfiction Black history books you can read this month to learn more about the history of racism and being Black in the U.S., including Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-02-09 11:31:00 UTC ]
In his new memoir, “Gay Bar,” Jeremy Atherton Lin documents his personal history and the history of queer identity by exploring gay bars around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-09 10:00:09 UTC ]
In her new memoir coming out Tuesday, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas recalls the pressure she felt to conform to the film industry's beauty standards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-08 23:44:01 UTC ]
In a memoir about family and identity, Danielle Geller uses her archival skills to create a portrait of her absent mother. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-02-05 15:52:48 UTC ]