Dylan Farrow slammed Woody Allen's upcoming memoir, "Apropos of Nothing," calling it "deeply unsettling." She accused her adoptive father of sexual abuse in the 1990s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-03 18:48:28 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has won a six-way auction for the "unflinching" memoir of Vanessa Frake, the former governor of one of Britain’s most notorious prisons. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 05:40:46 UTC ]
Transworld has pre-empted a memoir by Jewish Dutch resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor Selma van der Perre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 21:39:29 UTC ]
The director allegedly sexually abused his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-03-02 21:29:55 UTC ]
Here’s an odd and unpleasant piece of news: with today’s announcement that Woody Allen’s long-rumored memoir is no longer just a rumor, and will in fact be hitting shelves next month, Allen and his estranged son Ronan Farrow—who has dedicated much of his journalistic career to uncovering... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-02 20:44:05 UTC ]
A memoir by Woody Allen, rumored for years and once thought unpublishable in the #MeToo era, is coming out next month. Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced Monday... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2020-03-02 19:41:59 UTC ]
This week's book events are fully locavore: Lynell George's essays on the city's rich cultural tapestry; Erin Khar's memoir of teen addiction in the mid-1980s; Thomas Pynchon's Cali counterculture noir; a debut novel from Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz; and a visit from Pod Save... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-28 19:52:47 UTC ]
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 ]