One of the first things you notice about Wiener’s Silicon Valley memoir is her elegant, strategic elision. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-01-07 13:30:02 UTC ]
Lemn Sissay’s account of his childhood in care My Name is Why (Canongate) has been shortlisted for the 2019 Slightly Foxed Best Biography Prize along with Francesca Segal’s story of sitting "vigil" for her premature twins, Mother Ship (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 22:27:54 UTC ]
Anna Wiener’s memoir captures the dreams, delusions and general absurdity of Silicon Valley in indelible detail. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-03 10:00:08 UTC ]
Virago has pre-empted Chloé Cooper Jones' "game-changing" memoir about disability as US rights were snapped up by Avid Reader Press in a "major auction". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-03 01:28:14 UTC ]
TWO CULTS FEATURE in Sands Hall’s memoir Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology, as the author jokes to an old friend in its early pages. There’s L. Ron Hubbard’s “religion,” of course, which ensnares Hall — via a charismatic Scientologist boyfriend — after she moves to Los Angeles in 1980 to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-31 20:00:14 UTC ]
STACEYANN CHIN MADE a name for herself performing poetry on Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry Jam, but her work extends beyond her electrifying spoken-word performances. She is a civil rights activist and teacher, published a critically acclaimed memoir in 2009 called The Other Side of Paradise,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-29 18:00:18 UTC ]
Novelist Rose Tremain has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list. Meanwhile poet and novelist Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar, receives a CBE. Sir Elton John, author of autumn memoir Me (Macmillan), is made a Companion of Honour. Among those receiving OBEs are artist and author David... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-27 17:04:32 UTC ]
Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan star in an adaptation of a memoir by the civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-24 19:45:28 UTC ]
The best audiobooks of December 2019 include the latest John le Carré spy novel and a stirring memoir by a Philippine immigrant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-20 20:54:02 UTC ]
The best audiobooks of December 2019 include the latest John le Carré spy novel and a stirring memoir by a Philippine immigrant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-20 20:54:02 UTC ]
The best audiobooks of December 2019 include the latest John le Carré spy novel and a stirring memoir by a Philippine immigrant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-12-20 20:54:02 UTC ]
Court says state is entitled to any profits from Permanent Record because its publication breached non-disclosure agreementsEdward Snowden is not entitled to the profits from his memoir Permanent Record, and any money made must go to the US government, a judge has ruled.Permanent Record, in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-12-20 13:20:57 UTC ]
The only actor to appear in every film of the Skywalker saga reflects on his experience in the book “I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-20 13:00:00 UTC ]
Audacious Brit Dolly Alderton explores a raucous decade of living and loving in her debut, 'Everything I Know About Love.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Tiffany Midge is the author of several books including the recent memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, a collection of prose that blends humor with social commentary and meditations on love and loss. Her poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear won Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
From stories about commitment to faith to those about leaving the faith, learn more about the traditions in these religious memoirs for Read Harder 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-19 11:33:46 UTC ]
“I’m not that interested in movies,” says the dancer and choreographer, whose new memoir is “Out Loud.” “I like poetry.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-19 10:00:04 UTC ]
Snowden's recently published memoir violated the terms of his employment contract. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-12-18 11:37:41 UTC ]
When I read the reviews of Ali Wong’s memoir Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice For Living Your Best Life, I was at first thrilled—the responses were glowing—and then perplexed. I fundamentally agreed with what they said: that the book is a more intimate and poignant (yet... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
Puffin will publish Brown Girl Dreaming, the multi-award winning memoir told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 18:04:41 UTC ]