Independent publisher Hashtag Press will publish Jess Impiazzi's memoir Silver Linings. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-07 17:36:02 UTC ]
IT IS ONLY IN the second half of Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s poignant and exquisite memoir about ballet (and other causes of female pain), What You Become in Flight, that it dawns on the reader — or on this reader, at least — that she’s invoking the word “flight” in two senses: the balletic sense... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-05-07 17:00:08 UTC ]
“Recollections of My Nonexistence,” a memoir by the feminist icon, is both revealing and not. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-07 15:00:00 UTC ]
“We are only sheltered from tragedy”, he writes in “Inventory”, “by the thin ice that we call time.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-05-07 14:55:41 UTC ]
On April 1st, I sent the final draft of my book, a memoir that revolves around my relationship with my cartoonist grandfather, to my editor. It was also on this day that there were nearly one million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide, almost 50,000 deaths, and thousands of overwhelmed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-07 08:48:18 UTC ]
A reader on how Roxane Gay's memoir HUNGER helped her overcome a fear of writing about her partial paralysis and disability within Black feminism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-05-06 10:39:34 UTC ]
One of them is that if you’re holding out hope for her to save 2020, it’s not going to happen. “Your life isn’t yours anymore,” says Michelle Obama at the outset of Becoming, the new documentary based on her 2018 memoir of the same name. She makes the poignantly self-aware comment as she... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-05-06 06:30:05 UTC ]
Natalie Wood's daughter, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, has written a memoir of life with the legend and produced an HBO documentary about her career. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-05 15:00:49 UTC ]
In her memoir “More Than Love,” Natasha Gregson Wagner delivers a poignant look at a complicated relationship and a tantalizing foray into “What if?” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-05 11:00:00 UTC ]
Tori Amos opens up about her creative process (hint: it involves listening to The Muses). | Lit Hub Memoir In honor of the 155th anniversary of Alice’s tumble down the rabbit hole, 20 artists’ visions of her adventures in Wonderland. | Lit Hub “They had the same power—to stick in the throat of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-04 10:30:42 UTC ]
Two celebrated memoirists of mental illness—Marin Sardy, author of The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia, and Sarah C. Townsend, author of Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis—discuss writing, families, and the struggle to make meaning out of madness. * Sarah Townsend:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-01 08:47:51 UTC ]
Hachette Books Ireland has acquired former state pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy's memoir in a six-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-01 00:07:05 UTC ]
While the personal essay has enjoyed continued popularity, a book-length collection of linked essays, centered on an author’s self or life, is less common than a traditional memoir or novel. A truly successful essay collection can reveal the author processing experiences at many different points... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-29 08:47:44 UTC ]
“Little Family” speaks to the plight of poor people in countries riddled with corruption and violence. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-28 16:54:34 UTC ]
The journalist digs deep into the past in this touching debut book on sexuality, gender identity and the power of family. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-04-28 09:45:09 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, Nina Renata Aron speaks with Maris Kreizman about her new book, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, a memoir of codependency. They talk about the cultural history of love and its entanglement with suffering, particularly for women, and how hard it is to break... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-27 19:00:44 UTC ]
This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Sari talks with Alia Volz, the author of reported, historical memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco — about being raised by colorful hippie parents who ran an illegal pot-brownie... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-23 20:00:24 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has won at auction the memoir of ex-Special Forces soldier and record-breaking mountaineer Nims Purja MBE. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 14:18:55 UTC ]
Judge famous for ruling against Boris Johnson will recount how ‘a little girl from North Yorkshire became the most senior judge in the UK’ Lady Hale, who presided over the momentous decision to rule Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament unlawful, is set to write her memoirs, of how “a little... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-04-23 14:06:04 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has signed the memoir of former Supreme Court president Lady Hale in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 15:33:30 UTC ]