The former president offers familiar praise without delving deeper into their relationship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-18 13:00:00 UTC ]
Some publishing executives worry their authors and staff might rebel, but they say their bigger concern would be ensuring the book’s accuracy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-18 10:19:13 UTC ]
Sphere will publish My Farming Life, the new memoir from shepherdess Emma Gray. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 10:05:06 UTC ]
Waterstones has seen "strong" online orders for A Promised Land (Viking), with the title also at number one in Amazon's bestseller charts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 06:17:45 UTC ]
As you may have noticed, Barack Obama has a book out today. It’s a memoir, titled A Promised Land, that runs to more than seven-hundred pages and is still only a first volume—covering the period from Obama’s childhood to the raid, in 2011, that killed Osama bin Laden. Originally, Obama planned... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-11-17 13:29:32 UTC ]
My first novel was released within six months of Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s memoir of Appalachian roots and a youth spent in a Rust Belt community with a dearth of jobs and resources. Vance’s book came out just before the 2016 election; mine was released just after. Donald Trump’s victory had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-11-17 12:01:45 UTC ]
In the coming days, the team will cover two major awards and reveal two year-end lists. There’s also a certain presidential memoir coming out. Two editors discuss an industry that hasn’t slowed down. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-17 10:00:11 UTC ]
Catherine Coleman Flowers’s memoir chronicles her advocacy for improved sanitation systems in rural America and her own education as an activist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-17 10:00:08 UTC ]
Independent booksellers reported solid first-day sales of former President Barak Obama's 'A Promised Land.' There was a downside, however, as many store owners reported some cartons of the memoir arrived damaged. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has bought a memoir by Dr Waheed Arian, billed as "the powerful story of a boy who dreamed about helping others, a tale of courage, ambition and unwavering resilience against all odds". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 03:40:20 UTC ]
"A Promised Land," out Tuesday in a worldwide release, eloquently and ruefully documents the first two and a half years of Obama's presidency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-16 21:30:00 UTC ]
“The temptation to hide the word because the reality of rape is so horrific only made it more critical that it stood front and center in my book.” Memoirist Michelle Bowdler on saying the unsayable. | Lit Hub Memoir “Like poetry, flash often relies on the tiny detail, the single image, or some... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-16 11:30:28 UTC ]
I wanted to write a beautiful book, a book about hope, love, optimism and resilience. I wanted to show readers the life I had built, slowly and with intention. The fact that everything had been only aspirational for too many years, and hard-won in the end, only deepened my need to share. As joy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-16 09:48:18 UTC ]
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Barack Obama premieres on Apple TV+ on Tuesday morning, just as copies of the hotly anticipated former president's memoir lands on bookstore shelves around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
With Barack Obama's memoir out from Viking on Tuesday (17th November), PRH's UK media campaign will kick off this weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-13 00:35:10 UTC ]
She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-12 10:00:04 UTC ]
While books about the outgoing US president have been bestsellers for the last four years, Trump might be a step too far for some publishersFact-checkers are quaking in their boots amid reports that Donald Trump could be being “courted for a new tome on his time in the White House”. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-11 14:24:45 UTC ]
The painter known to many as Lucian Freud's one-time muse writes of her own muse, her mother, and provers herself a masterful writer as well. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-10 18:28:13 UTC ]
Kamala Harris-related books have seen a sharp increase in popularity post-Biden/Harris presidential win. On Sunday, a whopping four books on Amazon’s Top 10 bestsellers list were either about or penned by the vice president-elect. The books in question: Harris’s memoir The Truths We Hold: An... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-10 17:37:24 UTC ]
In “This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing,” Jacqueline Winspear recalls her upbringing in the British countryside. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-10 14:00:00 UTC ]