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 ]
An excerpt from “Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood,” by Christa Parravani Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-10 10:01:00 UTC ]
A young woman’s diagnosis is only the beginning of the mystery in “Lightning Flowers.” As Katherine E. Standefer tried to make sense of her heart condition, her conscience sent her on a trip across the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-10 10:00:08 UTC ]
Yesterday, I attended a virtual book club where Heavy: An American Memoir was being read. When I clicked the link to join the Zoom, I saw the faces, necks, and shoulders of seven beautiful pixelated Black women from as far west as Las Vegas and as far east as Long Island. I assumed from their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-10 09:49:30 UTC ]
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Danielle Evans (The Office of Historical Corrections) Éireann Lorsung (The Century) Christa Parravani (Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-10 09:48:28 UTC ]
Tinder Press has won at auction Christina Patterson’s next book, Outside, the Sky is Blue: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Loss. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 23:01:40 UTC ]
“The Babur Nama is an oddly modern text, almost Proustian in its self-awareness.” William Dalrymple on the 16th-century memoir far ahead of its time. | Lit Hub Biography “We have had no truth and reconciliation process.” On the renaissance of American white supremacy, a conversation with Isaac... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-07 12:30:24 UTC ]
Don’t expect the usual bromides about hard work and resilience in “One Life.” The soccer star’s memoir gets into her political awakening as much as it does her sports career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-06 10:00:28 UTC ]
Monoray, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired Where Did I Go Right?: How The Left Lost Me by comedian and writer Geoff Norcott. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 03:36:21 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has snapped up an “exquisite” memoir about the challenges facing gay men today from acclaimed poet and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlistee Seán Hewitt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 07:03:12 UTC ]