Transworld has bought UK and Commonwealth rights for memoir The Bright Field by Margaret Reynolds, professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 08:56:53 UTC ]
W&N has acquired Miss Aluminium, a memoir by Susanna Moore describing her experiences in Hollywood in the 1970s and her own "hard-won arrival at selfhood". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-31 19:23:49 UTC ]
My approach to memoir writing demands a different schedule. It may be more organized. I take notes, I write in condensed bursts. I do that with poetry also, but the process is more alchemic. It’s uncontainable. It’s fluid, I can drift in another realm. The post I Didn’t Have a Plan: The Millions... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-05-29 10:00:01 UTC ]
Christian singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken brings her debut to B&H, Convergent signs a mother and son’s memoir about opioid addiction, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Patrik Svensson mixed natural history with memoir for his debut, which has become a surprise best seller and award winner in his native Sweden. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-22 09:00:23 UTC ]
On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Stephanie Danler, author of the 2016 bestselling novel Sweetbitter, and now the memoir Stray, just published by Knopf. In the book, Danler poignantly tackles a variety of issues, including: the destructive nature of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-21 17:00:57 UTC ]
"Hollywood Park," a new memoir from the frontman for the Airborne Toxic Event, recounts his childhood in L.A.'s Synanon cult — and his recovery. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-20 16:33:40 UTC ]
Hutchinson has acquired Bananarama's memoir Really Saying Something in a "strong" six-figure deal, and will publish this October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 05:26:25 UTC ]
Stephanie Danler’s memoir Stray invites us to look closely at our own life: our family dynamics, our loss, our trauma, and the moments of happiness that still exist within that fragile frame. With deep introspection and stunning prose, Danler tells us about the years she spent after writing her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-05-19 11:00:55 UTC ]
Naomi Fry on “Miss Aluminum,” a new memoir by Susanna Moore, who is known for her 1995 thriller “In the Cut.” Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-05-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-19 09:00:05 UTC ]
Bonnier Books UK has acquired Kate MacDougall's story of the dog walking business she founded in her mid-twenties, London’s No1 Dog Walking Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 04:39:15 UTC ]
Among the big deals this week are a new book by rapper Gucci Mane, a memoir of addiction and recovery by a politician and her son, and a nonfiction book by the cocreator of Showtime’s Billions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The juiciest fashion memoir of the year is out. But is it a tell-all, a tragedy or a harbinger of things to come? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-14 15:03:20 UTC ]
You know what they say: April showers bring May books. Here’s today’s brand-new batch coming to (virtual) bookstores near you. Consider this a friendly reminder that it’s never a bad idea to support your local indie. * Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease (Grove Press) “This memoir churns deep... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-12 13:45:17 UTC ]
Readers thought Stephanie Danler's debut novel, "Sweetbitter," was autobiography. The reality, in her memoir "Stray," is far more painfully dramatic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-12 13:00:01 UTC ]
On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Maggie Downs, author of the memoir and travelogue, Braver Than You Think: Around the World On the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime about the year she spent traveling around the world, fulfilling many of her mother’s unmet... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-11 18:38:48 UTC ]
“We are only sheltered from tragedy”, he writes in “Inventory”, “by the thin ice that we call time.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, Maris Kreizman speaks with Mikel Jollett about his memoir, Hollywood Park. Hollywood Park is about Jollett’s experience growing up in a cult, and his escape and fallout from the childhood trauma he experienced. He talks about believing his life was normal as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-08 19:00:54 UTC ]
The author of “Sweetbitter” has written a memoir about the pain she’s suffered from — and caused to — those she’s loved. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-08 09:00:05 UTC ]