Michael O’Mara Books is to publish a memoir by Jay Jayamohan, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and star of the acclaimed BBC fly-on-the-wall series Brain Doctors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-15 05:03:30 UTC ]
Carmen Maria Machado explains why she dedicated a chapter of her new book to recapping a sci-fi show from the ‘90s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-11-14 23:07:23 UTC ]
Altan’s cri de coeur is a timeless testament to the art and power of writing amid Orwellian repression. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-11-14 18:01:28 UTC ]
Orlando Patterson’s “The Confounding Island” is a sociologist’s analysis of his birthplace as well as a personal memoir of affection and failure. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-11-13 19:00:09 UTC ]
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed his memoir Permanent Record has been censored in China, saying it breaks the terms of his publishing agreement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-13 03:25:45 UTC ]
Virtually none of us will ever know what Ahmet Altan has gone through, and continues to live through. After the 2016 Turkish coup d’etat attempt, the writer was arrested along with his brother on such claims as “sending subliminal messages to coup supporters.” In 2018, they were sentenced to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-11 12:00:01 UTC ]
Caren Beilin’s new book, Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), is a memoir about reproductive health and the IUD, gendered medical gaslighting, and activism in the chronic illness community. Beilin considers the copper IUD’s role in triggering her sudden onset rheumatoid arthritis. She... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-08 09:47:44 UTC ]
“A Warning” is the latest and most unusual tell-all political memoir to emerge from President Trump’s administration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-11-08 06:50:32 UTC ]
Adam Kay’s junior doctor memoir racked up impressive sales over the course of the year and topped the chart, but a self-published title was hot on its heels in second spot. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-08 05:28:53 UTC ]
Penguin Ireland will publish New Zealand rugby union coach Joe Schmidt’s memoir later this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-06 02:38:57 UTC ]
Tori Amos—synesthete musical prodigy, RAINN activist, and one of the most iconic singer-songwriters of the 1990s (easily the greatest musical decade)—is releasing a new, politically-themed memoir entitled Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage. The book, Amos’ first since... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-05 21:44:52 UTC ]
In the middle of Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir In the Dream House, CARMEN, stylized in all caps like a play script, sits across from the woman with whom she’s been in an abusive relationship (THE WOMAN IN THE DREAM HOUSE). The scene is set (“the curtain rises”) and we’re shown, “the house... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-05 12:00:26 UTC ]
“WHAT IS DIFFICULT is not impossible.” Anne Boyer both writes and proves this maxim in The Undying, her crystalline memoir of illness and the hard knowledge that illness provides. The Undying engages with art from Aelius Aristides to John Donne to Audre Lorde, within an account of the author’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-04 20:00:59 UTC ]
Val Kilmer’s memoir lands at a Big Five house, 'Dead Man Walking' goes graphic, the screenwriter of The Jerk sells a thriller, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Katy Waldman reviews Carmen Maria Machado’s ”In the Dream House,“ a formally inventive memoir that recounts the author’s experience with an abusive relationship. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2019-10-31 17:04:01 UTC ]
The book doesn’t offer a clear-eyed view of who the singer really was — he would have hated that. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-30 14:42:51 UTC ]
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoSince studying Lara as a student, I have been a fan of Bernardine Evaristo’s work, and am delighted to see her win the Booker Prize this year. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives of twelve black characters with different backgrounds and experiences, most... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-10-30 09:49:28 UTC ]
Carmen Maria Machado follows up her acclaimed collection of stories, “Her Body and Other Parties,” with a memoir about her frightening relationship with another woman while in graduate school. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-29 19:27:21 UTC ]
JAQUIRA DÍAZ’S FIRST BOOK — the memoir Ordinary Girls, published by Algonquin Books on October 29 — lyrically chronicles a childhood and early adulthood marked by pain and chaos but also by joy and celebration. Díaz grew up, first, in one of Puerto Rico’s roughest neighborhoods and then amid... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-29 12:30:43 UTC ]
Author Timothy J. Hillegonds shares three ideas on how to determine what to include and what to leave out of a memoir so that it supports the main themes of the book. The post But This Really Happened: What to Include and Leave Out of a Memoir by Timothy Hillegonds appeared first on Writer's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-10-28 15:03:11 UTC ]