Yesterday, a pair of TV interviews crystallized just how the Trump administration is threatening the integrity of the election. On CNBC, Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, cast “voting rights” as part of a “liberal-left wish list,” adding, “That’s not our game.” On Fox Business, Trump... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-08-14 12:26:12 UTC ]
“I don’t know what it means!” Andy Warhol bleats, in John Giorno’s Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment (out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Warhol’s ditzy refrain is a mantra for the perpetually bemused, at once tragicomic and tongue-in-cheek. He says... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-14 08:48:26 UTC ]
Among the week’s big deals are the acquisition of a #MeToo memoir by a French publishing exec, Sharon Stone’s memoir, and Andy Weir’s new novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
As Crown Publishing predicted, readers eagerly anticipated Michelle Obama’s Becoming. Autobiography and memoir are best selling categories because virtually everyone enjoys learning about the private life of public figures. In this case, many were curious about the woman who seemed to rise above... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-08-12 11:00:00 UTC ]
OWN IT! is to partner with Grime music label Boy Better Know to co-publish the memoir of Ifeomagwu “Ify” Adenuga, the mother of the label's founders. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-11 10:24:04 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Liv's Alone by Liv Thorne, an "honest and hopeful memoir that captures the joy and the challenge that is parenting alone by choice". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-09 12:38:16 UTC ]
Another day, another announcement of a memoir from a former Trump collaborator. This time, it’s Fiona Hill, an ex-advisor who testified in Trump’s impeachment inquiry, whose “views about the future of a polarized America” will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021. I have nothing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-06 19:59:16 UTC ]
Sara Faith Alterman's "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a memoir about strange family dynamics, love, grief and the benefits of finally opening up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-05 18:00:51 UTC ]
It would be easy to summarize Being Lolita as a memoir about a toxic, exploitative relationship between a high school English teacher and his student, and it is about that—but it’s about that in the way Walden is about a pond. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2020-08-04 16:08:33 UTC ]
On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Morgan Jerkins, author of Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, published by Harper. In this fascinating historical memoir, Jerkins explores her identity and heritage by tracing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-03 19:36:31 UTC ]
A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to reconcile past traumas—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2020-08-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
Trethewey’s memoir is a tribute to a life snuffed out by a brutal man, a fractured judicial system and a patriarchy as old as Methuselah. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-07-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury's Green Tree is to publish Liz Fraser's memoir Coming Clean: A True Story of Love, Addiction and Recovery next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 11:02:40 UTC ]
I met David Adjmi at a fancy writing residency. The kind of place where you work all day alone and then eat dinner together, have a drink in the parlor afterwards. I remember a night when someone suggested watching a movie. As people were perusing the house copy of the criterion collection... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-07-31 11:00:00 UTC ]
Scribner buy a book about American’s first female astronauts, Matthew McConaughey sells a memoir to Crown, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Laura Lippman, author of My Life as a Villainess, published by William Morrow. In this wry essay collection she writes movingly about becoming a mom in her fifties, choices she made in her career as a journalist and a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-30 18:00:43 UTC ]
The new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is an aching investigation of trauma and art. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-30 10:06:53 UTC ]
Katy Waldman writes about “Memorial Drive,” a new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, who pieces together memories of her mother, who was murdered by Trethewey’s stepfather. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-07-29 10:00:00 UTC ]
Let your summer getaway include a new Sherlock Holmes adventure, a memoir about reinvention, and two novels that offer insights on racial identity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-28 21:20:01 UTC ]
Let your summer getaway include a new Sherlock Holmes adventure, a memoir about reinvention, and two novels that offer insights on racial identity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-28 21:20:01 UTC ]