In Sarah Chihaya’s memoir Bibliophobia, we enter into the moment of her breakdown—an event that she has seen on her horizon since childhood, but also seemed impossibly remote. As a child of Japanese and Japanese-Canadian immigrants to the US, Chihaya’s parents “didn’t really believe in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-06 09:56:18 UTC ]
Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-01-31 13:00:00 UTC ]
Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life, Dorian Lynsky’s Everything Must Go, and Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-31 09:58:15 UTC ]
This searing memoir recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean—and find her ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-30 12:00:00 UTC ]
A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-01-30 10:05:04 UTC ]
It’s among the more playful matters on his mind in “Shattered,” a memoir of the injury that took away his ability to turn pages — but not his hunger to tell a story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-01-30 10:00:13 UTC ]
“Everyone writes about New York with so much tenderness, even when they are sick of it.” Kay Sohini discovers a literary New York (in graphic memoir). | Lit Hub Memoir Ruth Franklin on the connection between an obscure German noblewoman and Anne Frank: “One day, while I was looking over my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-29 11:30:02 UTC ]
At 84, Edmund White is ready to kiss (to put it mildly) and tell ... well, everything. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2025-01-28 16:56:52 UTC ]
By the time I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings hit shelves in the first days of 1970, buzz about the memoir had been building for some time. Newspaper stories about its author, Maya Angelou—a well-known dancer, singer, and political activist—had been teasing the book for years; both Ebony and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 09:57:54 UTC ]
A cozy fantasy bodyguard romance, a darkly funny memoir exploring the toll of sexism, a new detective duo, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-23 17:04:23 UTC ]
The memoir "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You" tackles the singer's tumultuous childhood and complicated relationship with her mother. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-01-22 11:00:49 UTC ]
Activist, Spy, and Icon Josephine Baker's memoir, a bookish memoir about mental illness and identity by a literature professor, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:30:00 UTC ]
This week's featured books include the follow up to IRON FLAME, new horror by 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, and a memoir by the most dangerous woman in Africa. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:00:00 UTC ]
Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-01-15 16:29:00 UTC ]
What roles do place and memory play in the construction of a narrative? In this conversation, memoirist Shze-Hui Tjoa and novelist Farah Ali talk about how these forces affect the storytelling in their respective books: The Story Game (Tin House, 2024), an interrogation of memory, childhood, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-13 09:56:58 UTC ]
A Memoir About Having Undocumented Parents, One Woman Against the Hordes of Hell, a Chillingly Beautiful Mystery, and More of Today's Best Book Deals Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-11 12:30:00 UTC ]
Gloria L. Huang on understanding herself and her family through The Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins. | Lit Hub Memoir “Miles tells him he’s the man on the marquee, but the cop assaults him with his stick nonetheless.” Irvin Weathersby Jr. examines the effortless racism of America’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-08 11:30:31 UTC ]
Jewish Life in Harbin, China: A Conversation with Jean Hoffmann Lewanda by Susan Blumberg-Kason Interviews [email protected] Tue, 01/07/2025 - 07:08 Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann LewandaI met the author Jean... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2025-01-07 13:08:24 UTC ]
Reagan Arthur picks up a memoir of solo travel, a pair of French sister-authors sell the story of their famous grandmother to Europa Editions, and more in this week’s book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
The year’s best books include the novel “James” by Percival Everett and a memoir by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2024-12-18 16:59:22 UTC ]