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 ]
“I needed help because I was the one who carried the psychic burden of our home, its physical state, all the time.” Laura Cronk considers ghosts and the gendered work of cleaning house. | Lit Hub Memoir Russell Shorto on realizing that his grandfather was a small-town mobster and (reluctantly)... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-05 11:30:52 UTC ]
President Biden’s oldest surviving child is publishing a memoir about his struggles with addiction and drug abuse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-04 18:54:06 UTC ]
Son of US president, and ongoing target for conservatives, will release Beautiful Things in AprilHunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden and an ongoing target for Republican supporters, has announced that his memoir, Beautiful Things, will be published in April. Related: Joe, Jill and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-04 16:59:48 UTC ]
Today the Associated Press reported that Hunter Biden, son of famous memoirist Joe Biden, will publish a memoir of his own on April 6. The memoir will be published with Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Beautiful Things, acquired by Gallery Books in fall 2019, focuses on Biden’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-04 16:02:23 UTC ]
Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson's memoir "Just as I Am" was published two days before her death. Now it's topping the bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-04 16:00:34 UTC ]
Michelle Obama's bestselling memoir Becoming will be published in paperback on 2ndMarch, alongside an edition for younger readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-03 06:18:31 UTC ]
Michelle Obama’s 'Becoming' will be released in a young reader’s edition and in trade paperback on March 2; originally published in 2018, the former First Lady’s memoir became a #1 international bestseller, with sales topping more than 15 million copies worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at “The Black Panther Party,” a new history of the group, and “Come Home, Indio,” a memoir about growing up part Native American. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-02 17:30:26 UTC ]
Aurum, an imprint of The Quarto Group, has acquired Hannah Bourne-Taylor’s debut nature memoir, Fledgling. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-01 23:39:22 UTC ]
“Is it the fault of the mother that her child will suffer? Or is empire, white supremacy, the denial of ongoing genocide, and the prison industrial system to blame?” Randa Jarrar on Palestinian mothers, the Virgin Mary, and the Mothers of the Movement. | Lit Hub Memoir The internet has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-01 11:30:46 UTC ]
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 ]