Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was part of the Trumps’ inner circle — until she wasn’t. Her memoir is a cautionary tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-28 21:34:51 UTC ]
Hosts Kate, Eric, and Medaya are joined by renowned Chinese writer Yan Lianke, whose latest book is the memoir Three Brothers, about his childhood growing up during the Cultural Revolution. Calling in from Beijing, Yan discusses his life as a writer, being banned and censored in his own country... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-08-28 20:55:54 UTC ]
Glennon Doyle’s memoir ‘Untamed,’ which had its best print sales since its pub week in March, is the #3 book in the country. Plus ‘Live in Love’ by Lauren Akins, wife of country singer Thomas Rhett, is #8 in the country, and seminal L.A. punk band Bad Religion gives fans permission to ‘Do What... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Erin Morgenstern’s “The Starless Sea” and Jill Biden’s memoir are among the top picks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-26 12:00:00 UTC ]
The American journalist witnessed the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. Her nuanced approach offers clues about reporting a polarised society. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-08-25 15:02:35 UTC ]
My memoir is not unique. But only in the sense that my story unfolds with New York City as the backdrop, where so many other stories have unfolded and will continue to unfold long after I’m gone. That’s the beauty of this multilayered city: it unravels you, and no one’s unraveling is alike. Yes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-08-25 11:00:12 UTC ]
Windmill has signed Sally Huband's non-fiction debut, the story of a woman who combs Shetland beaches to find her place, in a 24-hour pre-empt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-21 02:26:55 UTC ]
Check out the cover for NEGATIVE SPACES, a new memoir from Lilly Dancyger, editor of BURN IT DOWN: WOMEN WRITING ABOUT ANGER. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-18 10:37:00 UTC ]
“Borges and Me,” a memoir by Jay Parini, recounts a young poet’s travels with Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine master. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-18 09:00:07 UTC ]
Sceptre has pre-empted Hollywood Park by musician and writer Mikel Jollett, frontman of indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-16 14:59:29 UTC ]
Michael Cohen's memoir about U.S. President Donald Trump will be released Sept. 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, which confirmed the news on Thursday. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-08-14 12:29:48 UTC ]
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 ]