In a ruling last week, a federal judge said he will allow the former Trump National Security Advisor to conduct discovery on whether Trump administration officials acted in bad faith in holding up the pre-publication review of Bolton's memoir 'The Room Where It Happened.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
When white supremacist mobs threaten democracy: David Zucchino on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and the Capitol Insurrection of 2021. | Lit Hub Politics Navigating the intricacies of race and the violence of antiblackness: Nadia Owusu reflects on her early years in America. | Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-16 12:30:01 UTC ]
She also wrote a memoir about her parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 14:46:04 UTC ]
What if the stories we tell in order to live happen to be conspiracy theories? William J. Bernstein on the evolutionary origins of collective delusion. | Lit Hub History Refugee, resident, dissident: Yiyun Li introduces Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir about her stay in a Chicago psychiatric... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 11:30:00 UTC ]
Explore the myriad powerful stories through visual storytelling and these graphic memoirs and true stories by women, including The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-13 11:38:00 UTC ]
Nadia Owusu’s beautiful and unsettling memoir is an attempt to understand what it means to be rooted and rootless. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-13 10:00:00 UTC ]
Based on Joanna Rakoff's memoir of working for JD Salinger's agent, the film lacks some of the wit but none of the heart of Joanna's story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-01-13 01:19:06 UTC ]
Actress Dame Eileen Atkins, aged 86, will publish her memoir with Virago in October 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 19:09:03 UTC ]
Today, Haruki Murakami celebrates his 72nd birthday—and we’re celebrating by diving into his recorded interviews. Murakami rarely gives interviews, but the ones he does are packed with insight into how he approaches the writing process. His memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running digs... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-12 18:27:48 UTC ]
The acclaimed actor’s memoir takes us far from Hollywood to his Irish childhood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
“The world will come between you,” writes Marcos Gonsalez in the prologue of his memoir Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land. The you here refers to both the author and his father, an immigrant from Mexico, captured in a photograph from the author’s childhood. “Hundreds of years of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-12 12:00:00 UTC ]
In “Unsolaced,” Greta Ehrlich tells a story of personal discovery against the backdrop of the climate crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-12 10:00:06 UTC ]
“The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” by Gina Apostol, takes the form of a found memoir that has been picked apart by scholars. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-12 05:00:02 UTC ]
I first read Nadia Owusu’s debut memoir Aftershocks in June, as the United States—led by the white nationalist backed Republican administration—was several months into a still ongoing unchecked global pandemic which was disproportionately killing Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Americans.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
Comey’s “Saving Justice” is a revealing memoir that describes his feelings about Trump and his worries about the nation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-10 23:00:02 UTC ]
“Gone to the Woods” is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-09 08:01:28 UTC ]
IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Archive of American Folk Song dispatched its field workers in 10 different regions across the United States to solicit average Americans’ opinions about the bombing and FDR’s ensuing proposal for a declaration of war. A second round... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-08 18:00:08 UTC ]
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This time we’re talking to Abeer Hoque, author of the memoir Olive Witch, who’s teaching a two-week seminar on one of the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
Scribe is publishing a new B-format paperback edition of US president-elect Joe Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-08 03:07:33 UTC ]
Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir, recently reissued, recounts her time in a psychiatric ward and the people she met there. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-06 20:50:30 UTC ]