#Merky Books will publish the memoir of youth activist Jeremiah Emmanuel, “a guide to overcoming the obstacles young people should not have to face”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 13:08:54 UTC ]
She was also a publisher and an author whose memoir affirmed that her father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, had popularized the Serenity Prayer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-13 22:52:39 UTC ]
This week, Josh Duboff reviews André Aciman’s “Find Me,” the sequel to his 2007 novel “Call Me by Your Name.” In 1995, Barry Unsworth wrote for the Book Review about “Out of Egypt,” Aciman’s memoir chronicling the family that shaped his life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-13 10:00:09 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has pre-empted a “breathtaking” memoir from Tanya Shadrick about waking from a coma. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 23:53:18 UTC ]
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This time we’re talking to Lilly Dancyger, editor at Narratively and author of the forthcoming memoir Negative Space. Lilly’s next... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-12 12:00:00 UTC ]
A deliciously original study of the cheap editions of Pride and Prejudice and other novels – ignored by literary scholars – casts new light on her readershipJane Austen aficionados think that they know the story of their favourite author’s posthumous dis-appearance and then re-emergence. For... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-12-11 07:30:31 UTC ]
Former political aide and author Alastair Campbell is publishing a "candid" and "empowering" memoir about his struggles with mental health Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-11 06:30:30 UTC ]
Quiller has bought the memoir of former British banker Giles Darby, one of the NatWest Three who was jailed in the US for his involvement in a $7m fraud. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 16:17:14 UTC ]
Alix O’Neill’s memoir of growing up in a Republican area of Belfast during the 1990s has gone to Fourth Estate Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 02:33:14 UTC ]
“I’m fascinated by stories of how the various plant specimens we take for granted today were originally discovered,” says the actor, whose latest book is “Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-05 10:00:03 UTC ]
Led by sales of such of powerhouse titles as Delia Owen's wildly popular novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing' on the fiction list, and Michelle Obama's memoir 'Becoming' for nonfiction, Amazon released lists of the e-tailers top selling books of 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by Jude Brewer and with original music composed for each episode, the podcast features the voices of today’s literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction. In our first episode, Mitch Albom reads an excerpt from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-03 09:47:32 UTC ]
Of Bohumil Hrabal’s six great loves, guess how many were cats? (Hint: almost all of them.) | Lit Hub Memoir The car culture that’s helping destroy the planet was by no means inevitable: on the relentless campaign to force Americans to accept the automobile. | Lit Hub History Here are the 78 best... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-30 12:30:39 UTC ]
“UNLIKE MOST JEWISH BOYS from New Jersey, I have a Jamaican accent,” writes Ross Kenneth Urken in Another Mother, his memoir in which he goes in search of both his recollections of the Jamaican nanny who raised him and all of the things he never knew about her before she died. He writes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-24 20:00:33 UTC ]
THE QUEER COMING-OF-AGE MEMOIR is a weapon against erasure. The best of these memoirs move us by daring to be profoundly specific, providing a necessary consolation to readers who might have believed until then that they were alone in the dark. That their suffering would have no choice but to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
If Michelle Obama's memoir left you looking for more of the same, you're not alone. Check out these books like BECOMING and fill that hole in your heart. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-11-20 11:36:56 UTC ]
Elton John was greeted by a standing ovation last night as the legendary singer took to the stage to discuss his life in the spotlight. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 16:03:01 UTC ]
Henry Barajas’ Latinx memoir and graphic biography of his social activist great-grandfather, 'La Voz de M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo' with art by J. Gonzo, will be published this month by Image Comics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
I first encountered Carmen Maria Machado in 2016, reading her short fiction “Horror Story” in Granta. Her innovative and acclaimed debut collection Her Body and Other Parties had not yet been published, but I scourged the internet for everything I could find. What I found were stories about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Comedian and actor Alan Davies is publishing a memoir, Just Ignore Him, with Little, Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-15 09:50:15 UTC ]