R. Eric Thomas’ debut memoir Here for It: Or How to Save Your Soul in America challenges what it means to be “other.” Thomas delves into his experiences as a black, queer Christian—moving from his childhood in Baltimore to his struggles with private school and an Ivy League. This hilarious... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-02-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
It’s hard enough for memoir writers to figure out their relationship to “truth.” Our memories are faulty, and our real lives rarely offer tightly-plotted stories or clear lessons—so is your responsibility to the reader to be scrupulously accurate, or to give them some kind of insight into... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-02-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is publishing The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by Irish Book Award-winner John Connell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-16 17:12:56 UTC ]
His diverse body of work included novels, plays and a memoir about Ernest Hemingway. He was also a partner with his friend Paul Newman in business and charity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-16 15:37:39 UTC ]
His diverse body of work included novels, plays and a memoir about Ernest Hemingway. He was also a partner with his friend Paul Newman in business and charity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-15 21:06:55 UTC ]
TO BE A STRANGER in your own land is alienating enough, but to be a stranger among your own people? That vexing question is at the heart of two books — one a Bildungsroman, the other a memoir — by Arab authors whose narratives might be best described as the misadventures of the insider-outsider.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-15 18:00:32 UTC ]
IF YOU WERE a depressed young woman in the 1990s, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s memoir Prozac Nation (1994) was required reading. I remember standing in a New Jersey Barnes & Noble, tenderly taking the book from the shelf, and turning it over in my hands. Who was this woman on the cover? She looked so... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-14 13:30:58 UTC ]
Free agent NFL quarterback and social activist Colin Kaepernick plans to publish a memoir via his own publishing venture and release an audiobook version of the untitled book via an exclusive deal with Audible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Shetland literature has a short history. Or, more accurately, the long history of Shetland literature has been truncated — the result of a double disadvantage, as far as official histories are concerned: an oral culture, in which few people could read or write, and a language that died out... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-02-13 12:54:04 UTC ]
Colin Kaepernick announced on Thursday that he will release a memoir this year under his new imprint, Kaepernick Publishing. He also has partnered with Audible for a multiproject deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-13 12:35:32 UTC ]
This week on The Maris Review, R. Eric Thomas joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his new book, Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America. On choosing the moments that go into a memoir: Maris Kreizman: Your memoir collection is very much about figuring out who you are and being comfortable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-13 09:47:59 UTC ]
Explorer and biologist Roman Dial reflects on parenting in this memoir of the search for his son, who vanished while solo hiking in Costa Rica. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-02-12 23:38:32 UTC ]
Explorer and biologist Roman Dial reflects on parenting in this memoir of the search for his son, who vanished while solo hiking in Costa Rica. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-02-12 23:38:32 UTC ]
The pop star-turned-fashion mogul was always defined by men. Now, she’s defining herself. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-11 13:43:43 UTC ]
Adrienne Miller’s memoir chronicles her tenure as fiction editor of Esquire in the 1990s and her rocky relationship with David Foster Wallace, the era’s iconic novelist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-11 10:00:07 UTC ]
When you’re writing a memoir, you find that you’re obliged to confront your own ideas about the nature of memory. In Gore Vidal’s own splendid memoir Palimpsest, he suggests that when we remember an event, we don’t remember it as it actually happened, but rather that we remember our memory of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-11 09:48:31 UTC ]
Vivian Gornick and the revolution that won’t end: John Freeman profiles the author of Unfinished Business. | Lit Hub “What are we to do with the art of profoundly compromised men?” Zan Romanoff on Adrienne Miller’s memoir of life with literary men, including David Foster Wallace. | Lit Hub “It... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-10 09:49:30 UTC ]
From Secret Barristers to pseudonymous paramedics and White House moles, Anon is writing a lot of books these days – and identifying some unexpected truths“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” wrote Virginia Woolf. Today, Anonymous is probably an outraged employee in a public service: a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-10 00:00:19 UTC ]
In her new memoir "Open Book," singer and former reality-TV star Jessica Simpson opens up about sexual abuse, addiction and dating John Mayer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-05 14:54:55 UTC ]
I feel creatively lost most of the time. It doesn’t matter if I’m beginning a fresh project, wading through the middle, or racing toward the end—I often find myself in a fugue state that makes it impossible for me to understand what I’m doing, even as I’m doing it. This is what I love about […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-05 09:48:59 UTC ]