The proposal includes a call for an 18-year limit on appointments to the court. President Joe Biden is unveiling a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He also is pressing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-07-29 13:55:34 UTC ]
Former first lady, who has been mostly absent as her husband campaigns, has never told her own story at length beforeThe former first lady Melania Trump has a memoir coming out this fall, Melania, billed by her office as “a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-07-26 13:42:09 UTC ]
Lauren Markham on why she almost quit journalism (and what made her come back). | Lit Hub Memoir “I fear the obvious so much that my evasions of it have sometimes made me ridiculous.” Phil Christman considers the poetics of place. | Lit Hub Craft Sarah Manguso’s Liars, Anne... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-26 10:30:31 UTC ]
Cher is splitting her upcoming memoir into two parts because she has a life 'too immense for only one book,' publisher Dey Street Books says. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-07-24 16:24:27 UTC ]
Jasmin Graham’s fresh and innovative memoir details how her work as a “rogue” shark scientist pushes science to include more diverse perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2024-07-24 14:20:39 UTC ]
Suzanne Scanlon’s book, Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness, is a memoir unlike any I’ve read. Scanlon returns to the landscape of the past, reflecting on her experience of being committed in the New York State Psychiatric Hospital while a student at Barnard in the late 1990s.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-07-23 11:00:00 UTC ]
In the memoir “Desperately Seeking Something,” Susan Seidelman’s life is as full of twists, charm and happy endings as one of her iconic movies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-23 09:00:50 UTC ]
War, Trauma, and Human Courage: A Conversation with Zhang Ling, by Yan Lu Interviews [email protected] Mon, 07/22/2024 - 16:20 Zhang Ling is the author of ten novels, including A Single Swallow (trans. Shelly Bryant) and Where Waters Meet, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-07-22 21:20:19 UTC ]
Recent releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-07-20 13:30:12 UTC ]
If you had a sudden urge to review the 2016 memoir for some reason, you might be out of luck right now. Yesterday, former president Donald Trump announced his running mate for the 2024 election: Senator JD Vance of Ohio. Vance, a onetime fierce critic of Trump, is a relative newcomer to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-07-16 12:25:00 UTC ]
At the heart of JD Vance’s journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in law school, “Hillbilly Elegy.” Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2024-07-16 01:50:32 UTC ]
A few weeks before the release of my first book, a memoir about my mother’s murder, I had to take a polygraph exam. The two things were not in fact related, but that was easy to forget once I found myself strapped in a chair in a windowless room on the fourth floor of a […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-15 08:56:51 UTC ]
Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is currently in its fourth year. We are a weekly podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life. Hosted by Brooke Warner of She Writes and Grant Faulkner of National Novel Writing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-15 08:01:27 UTC ]
‘In her concern for making a tidy death, my mum overlooked that other kind of mess which is grief, and guilt, and confusion.’ Memoir by Luke Allan. The post Death to Books appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2024-07-11 12:54:44 UTC ]
Lin-Manuel Miranda is wrapping up the recording of a concept album for a new musical co-written by playwright Eisa Davis, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The album will be based on the 1979 movie "The Warriors," whose sympathetic depictions of gang members and gritty... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-07-09 10:03:03 UTC ]
Many of the book’s themes, including structural racism, inequalities and poverty are as topical now as 30 years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2024-07-08 15:26:53 UTC ]
Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe sells a new souther epic to Morrow, Hillary Clinton’s new memoir goes to Simon & Schuster, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with Joni Mitchell, the new memoir by acclaimed writer Paul Lisicky, which will be published by HarperOne on February 4th, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here. From the moment Paul Lisicky heard Joni Mitchell... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-07-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
A Rastafarian memoir for fans of Educated, a final girls thriller, a love letter to bookstores, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-07-02 15:05:00 UTC ]
In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-29 11:50:03 UTC ]