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 ]
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 ]
NATASHA TRETHEWEY’S Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir is a breakthrough book that artfully balances prose and lyricism as it guides us through unspeakable trauma. Prior to our conversation, I felt a bond with Natasha since I spent much of my youth “as the girl whose brother committed suicide.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-28 12:30:40 UTC ]
Production company Bad Wolf has optioned Terri White's memoir Coming Undone (Canongate, 2020) for TV. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 05:17:52 UTC ]
What we can learn from books by politicians and their family members: Your weekly guide to the best in books Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2020-07-24 16:52:28 UTC ]
In this roundup of the best-reviewed BookLife titles, we highlight a sci-fi mystery, a memoir of personal discovery, a Viking saga, and others. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
[Updated 1:18 pm ET] Michael Cohen will be released from prison on Friday under orders from a federal judge, who said he was re-imprisoned after an initial release to home confinement in retaliation for his plans to publish a book about the president. “I make the finding that the purpose of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-23 14:28:49 UTC ]
Rachel Cohen never imagined that she would experience a stretch of time in which she only wanted to read Austen. Until it happened. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-22 22:40:11 UTC ]
Rachel Cohen never imagined that she would experience a stretch of time in which she only wanted to read Austen. Until it happened. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-22 22:40:11 UTC ]
Rachel Cohen never imagined that she would experience a stretch of time in which she only wanted to read Austen. Until it happened. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-22 22:40:00 UTC ]