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 ]
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 ]