Frank B. Wilderson III talks about his experimental approach to writing about blackness and violence, as well as the solace he found in Sarah Vaughan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-05 09:00:00 UTC ]
On the debut episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton talks to Sue William Silverman about her seventh book, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, a memoir in essays published by the University of Nebraska Press on March 1st. In the book, Silverman explores her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-03 18:00:03 UTC ]
Among the big books that sold this week are a memoir by actor Billy Dee Williams and Elizabeth George’s 21st Inspector Lynley mystery. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Kathy Valentine's hair-raising memoir recounts life before, during and shortly after the Go-Go's ascended to become the darlings of the MTV generation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-02 19:09:22 UTC ]
Seven Dials has won world rights at auction to Lost Without You, a book from the footballer turned actor Vinnie Jones about coping with the loss of his wife, Tanya, after her six-year battle with cancer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-02 12:09:30 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction is releasing an early audiobook edition of Adam Buxton's memoir in May—its first to be recorded entirely remotely. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 21:06:52 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Monoray has acquired a "no-holds-barred" memoir from film director Oliver Stone: Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing & Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador & The Movie Game. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 16:53:11 UTC ]
Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing,” recently released after being canceled by its original publisher, covers his childhood in Brooklyn, his career and the abuse allegations against him. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-26 21:46:30 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing imprint Little A has signed a memoir from author Amanda Prowse and her son, Josiah Hartley, about coping with depression within a family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 18:02:02 UTC ]
Director says in new memoir that not raising his adopted daughter after abuse allegations – which he denies – was ‘one of the saddest things’ of his lifeWoody Allen has written that he “would welcome Dylan [Farrow] with open arms if she’d ever want to reach out”, in his recently published memoir... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-24 17:17:03 UTC ]
On March 3, Politico’s Sarah Owermohle profiled an unlikely media star for our unlikely times: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci had demonstrated “an ability to talk frankly yet reassuringly about threats, to explain... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-03-24 12:06:29 UTC ]
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s new book combines memoir and reporting to tell the stories behind the headlines. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-24 09:00:12 UTC ]
A postscript added to Apropos of Nothing mocks Hachette Book Group for not publishing it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-03-23 20:55:32 UTC ]
Woody Allen's memoir "Apropos of Nothing" was released Monday by Arcade Publishing. The book was dropped earlier this month by Hachette after much criticism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-23 18:40:53 UTC ]
Interviews Tiffany Hawk In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surprised the world by successfully... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-03-23 16:00:04 UTC ]
The controversial film director’s autobiography Apropos of Nothing had been dropped by its original publisher Woody Allen’s memoir, dropped by its original publisher after widespread criticism, has found a new home.The 400-page book, still called Apropos of Nothing, was released on Monday by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-23 15:19:32 UTC ]
Good news for fans of layered, literary, female-led dramedies: SMILF creator Frankie Shaw is set to direct a feature film adaptation of T Kira Madden’s acclaimed 2019 memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. “T Kira’s story is a lesson in radical self-acceptance, an open-hearted love... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-23 14:43:01 UTC ]
For all those Concerned Citizens who have been up at night worrying about The Censorship of Woody Allen—yes folks, they’re out there, I get emails—take heart: Allen’s memoir, dropped earlier this month by Grand Central after employees walked out en masse in protest because of the credible sexual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-23 14:22:36 UTC ]
The director and accused child sexual abuser's memoir had been dropped by its previous publisher after widespread backlash. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-03-23 14:17:52 UTC ]
Woody Allen's memoir has been released by US indie Skyhorse Publishing after the title was dropped by Hachette Book Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 13:49:11 UTC ]