Novelist says that in the run-up to the 2016 election, she began to imagine a life where Clinton ‘made different choices, personally and professionally’Hillary Rodham Clinton recounts, in her memoir Living History, how Bill Clinton “asked me to marry him again, and again, and I always said no”.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-04 12:14:07 UTC ]
A Reese Witherspoon pick, a Silicon Valley memoir and the most talked about book of the year so far. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-04 00:16:04 UTC ]
Because they have nothing to hide about anything, the White House has issued some kind of threat—according to CNN’s Jake Tapper—in a formal letter to former National Security Adviser John Bolton, whose forthcoming memoir from Simon & Schuster contains first-hand accounts of Donald Trump... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-29 17:43:05 UTC ]
In his memoir 'Children of the Land,' poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo writes of border journeys, family separation and crossing a 'threshold of invisibility.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-29 15:00:08 UTC ]
Sarah DiGregorio’s new book combines memoir and reporting to explore changing treatments for babies born early. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-28 10:00:06 UTC ]
Book Reviews John K. Cox Jurij Koch / Courtesy of Domowina-Verlag In the 1950s, a girl whom Jurij Koch knew in high school moved away from their hometown of Cottbus in East Germany. It was a case, he says in his recent memoir, of “Weg von Ulbricht, hin... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-01-27 20:47:13 UTC ]
Some very important parts of former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir, The Room Where It Happened: A Washington Memoir (Simon & Schuster, March 17), have leaked. The bit that everyone is talking about confirms that Donald Trump did, in fact, withhold aide to Ukraine... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-27 14:01:28 UTC ]
Frank Cruz always told other people's stories. Now, he tells all in his memoir about his days as a reporter, Telemundo co-founder and everything in between. He carved paths for others along the way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-18 13:48:12 UTC ]
Amanda Yates Garcia is the guest. Her new memoir, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, is available from Grand Central Publishing. Garcia is a writer, artist, professional witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The Millions, The Los Angeles Times, Time Out, LA Weekly, GOOP,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-15 09:47:42 UTC ]
The Women of the World (WOW) Festival and Vintage Live have announced a "landmark collaboration" to celebrate the launch of writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s memoir What Have I Done? (Square Peg), to "help break the silence around postnatal mental health". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-14 17:38:30 UTC ]
Anna Wiener's memoir about her four-plus years working in startups never resolves the self-contradictions of her industry, city, or existence. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2020-01-13 23:50:00 UTC ]
Suranne Jones will produce and star in an adaptation of five-time boxing champion Jane Crouch’s memoir The Final Round (Pitch). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 13:45:31 UTC ]
'Uncanny Valley' by Anna Wiener is a biting, funny memoir from inside San Francisco's start-up culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-10 20:16:25 UTC ]
Investor J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” has launched a venture capital firm based in Cincinnati, according to multiple media reports. The Ohio native’s firm, Narya Capital, will invest in startups in the Raleigh, Durham and cities such as Salt Lake City,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-10 12:20:00 UTC ]
Wiener’s memoir “Uncanny Valley” maps her coming-of-age during the Valley’s 2010s rush, and the industry’s own loss of innocence. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2020-01-09 16:44:48 UTC ]
This week, we highlight a powerful and unsettling debut by Ani Katz; a cleverly crafted memoir by Javier Cercas; a tangled, riveting parable of the modern surveillance state by Joanna Kavenna; and more Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
In the days since the US military killed Qassem Suleimani, Iran’s fêted top security official, Iran’s leaders have repeatedly threatened retaliation. Yesterday, they volleyed ballistic missiles at two bases that house US troops in Iraq. No casualties were reported. On Twitter, Mohammad Javad... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-01-08 13:07:07 UTC ]
Motherwell, the incisive memoir by Deborah Orr, unpicks the complexities of familial relationships. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 09:25:51 UTC ]
Wurtzel, who had breast cancer, gave new breath to the memoir and was a new voice for those struggling with clinical depression and addiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-01-07 21:47:12 UTC ]
Author of bestselling memoir about clinical depression, which made her ‘a hashtag before there was Twitter’, died from metastatic breast cancer Elizabeth Wurtzel, journalist and author of bestselling memoir Prozac Nation, has died at the age of 52.Writer David Samuels, Wurtzel’s friend since... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-07 16:51:54 UTC ]