E.J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others floats stunningly through the abandonment she experienced as a teenager. When she was fifteen, her parents returned home to South Korea for a more lucrative job opportunity, leaving her behind in the United States with her college-going brother. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-02-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
Constable is publishing a memoir by radio and television presenter Pat Sharp, best known for hosting ITV children’s game show "Fun House". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 13:41:07 UTC ]
Not many people know this, but the first memoir in the English language was probably written by a mom who cried a lot. The Book of Margery Kempe is mostly the kind of text you read if you’re a medievalist, or maybe an English major at a women’s college, although I was an English major […] The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-02-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
“I try to hide how unreal those two deaths are to me. No, not unreal. It’s just I can’t make them matter.” Elizabeth Tallent on death, silence and the intimacies of sadness. | Lit Hub Memoir Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer lays out a plan for the future of democracy. | Lit Hub Politics “It’s […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-27 11:30:28 UTC ]
Headline has picked up The Yorkshire Forager, a “wonderfully wild” memoir and field guide by forager Alysia Vasey. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 10:30:25 UTC ]
Zondervan nabbed a new book by Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae; Jordan Lee Dooley brings two books to WaterBrook, a memoir on autism lands at Brazos, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Unbound has launched memoir How to Glitter a Turd from Coppafeel! founder Kris Hallenga. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-25 23:24:09 UTC ]
ERIN KHAR’S TENDER, at times desolate, yet boundlessly hopeful memoir Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me is, in many ways, a love letter to her oldest son, Atticus. Startled by a story he’d heard on the news about a successful dermatologist who had died of a drug... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-25 20:00:40 UTC ]
It’s damn near inevitable—someone asking me “who do I write for?” Most times I say, I’m writing for a 20-year-old version of myself, a young man who wasn’t a reader, but who might’ve been had he been exposed to the right books; who wasn’t an intellectual, but was ever curious; who listened to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 19:00:48 UTC ]
Mirror Books is set to publish a memoir by Aneira Thomas, the first baby born on the NHS. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-24 20:50:00 UTC ]
The memoir from the former Uber engineer Susan Fowler is a life story that doubles as a cultural indictment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2020-02-23 12:00:00 UTC ]
The Virago publisher is eloquent and inspiring on writing – but her memoir lacks grit and gossipLennie Goodings has had a long and highly respected career in publishing. She is chair of Virago Press, the pioneering publishing house that champions women’s writing. She’s been with Virago since the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-23 09:00:48 UTC ]
The president has called his former national security adviser a traitor and says the highly anticipated memoir shouldn't be published before November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-02-22 15:12:08 UTC ]
This amusing memoir feels like a Silicon Valley version of The Devil Wears Prada. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2020-02-21 16:00:00 UTC ]
Kim Hyun Sook’s irresistible memoir conveys her political and social awakening with equal measures of hilarity and terror. The post Panel Mania: ‘Banned Book Club’ appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-02-21 11:00:33 UTC ]
The author, born into the Church of Synanon cult, tells his heart-wrenching story of love and redemption in words and music. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Joseph is posthumously publishing the memoir of a Jewish dressmaker who survived three concentration camps. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-21 04:05:58 UTC ]
Ebury has signed a memoir from poet and novelist Helen Mort which it says could do for climbing what other books have done for running and wild swimming. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-20 11:08:11 UTC ]
The former Uber engineer paints a damning portrait of the culture Travis Kalanick built. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-02-19 21:07:39 UTC ]
Greta Thunberg’s "raw and powerful" family story, written largely by her mother Malena Ernman, will be published by Allen Lane on 5th March. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-18 15:10:37 UTC ]