THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT is the opening section from chapter three of my book in progress, Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore, a memoir and critical study about growing up in my father’s Jewish bookstore. As Harelick and Roth Books and then J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-06 16:00:43 UTC ]
“W-3,” Bette Howland’s account of her institutionalization, in 1968, proceeds according to a simple binary: those who suffer are patients; those who don’t are not. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-01-05 20:23:25 UTC ]
Looking for a memoir by a Latinx author for the Read Harder challenge? This is a list of recommendations to get you started! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-05 11:31:00 UTC ]
'Maybe there are lessons to be learned from rule-breaking,' writes Richard Charkin, with a new memoir as his case in point. The post Richard Charkin: ‘Thank Goodness for the Rule-Breakers’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-04 13:04:57 UTC ]
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former first lady of the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-12-31 09:00:00 UTC ]
Want to feel hungry? Read Bryan Washington on his year in takeout orders. | The New Yorker “In the end, Chang’s trauma, and the trauma he inflicted on other people, becomes part of his public persona, while we simply carry ours.” Hannah Selinger on what—and who—David Chang’s memoir leaves out. |... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-23 11:30:13 UTC ]
New fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barack Obama’s accent game, a Wilco frontman’s memoir and romance by Vonnegut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-12-22 23:58:19 UTC ]
The Thursday Murder Club sees off titles by Barack Obama and David Walliams in chaotic week for Britain’s book tradeRichard Osman’s cosy mystery about a group of elderly sleuths, The Thursday Murder Club, has become the first debut novel ever to become the Christmas No 1, selling a remarkable... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-22 15:00:18 UTC ]
Greystone Books will publish Édith Blais’ memoir of being kidnapped and held hostage for 450 days in Burkina Faso at the hands of a militant group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 06:56:14 UTC ]
Continuing on the Barack Obama’s Favorite Media end-of-year march, the former President has released a 20-song playlist to accompany his memoir A Promised Land, composed of songs that recall memories of his time on the campaign trail and in the White House. There’s some Beyonce, some John... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-21 17:24:57 UTC ]
In this Read Harder Challenge post, we're recommending books for the task asking you to read a a food memoir by an author of color. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-21 11:31:00 UTC ]
Dialogue Books has acquired A Working-Class Family Ages Badly: A Memoir of Love and Life Between Two Pandemics by Juno Roche. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 17:09:37 UTC ]
Acclaimed designer and thought leader Cheryl D. Miller shares her decades-long quest for design justice. Cheryl D. Miller is an acclaimed New York communications designer, artist, and theologian. She is the author of the memoir Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology to Her Asian Island Mother and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-12-17 08:00:08 UTC ]
The 44th president of the United States does more than defend his legacy; he shares the values that have animated his life and political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-15 00:02:29 UTC ]
The 44th president of the United States does more than defend his legacy; he shares the values that have animated his life and political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-15 00:02:29 UTC ]
The 44th president of the United States does more than defend his legacy; he shares the values that have animated his life and political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-12-15 00:02:29 UTC ]
Lit Lists Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-12-14 20:55:17 UTC ]
Apologies, but I have to begin my introduction to this list of books by briefly mentioning my own book; shout your aggrievance about this to the heavens if you must. Writing my book, which is a hybrid of memoir and reporting about my dog, was difficult for me at times, because I’m not used to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-12-11 12:00:43 UTC ]
Don Winslow sells a trilogy to William Morrow for seven figures, Dey Street buys a memoir from Moon Unit Zappa, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
For a while, Melania Trump has teased that she might write a book after the Trump family exits the White House. I, like many, had mixed feelings. On one hand, it’d be interesting to see the Trump administration from the point of the view of the famously sullen First Lady; but on the other hand,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-10 18:18:04 UTC ]