“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 ]
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 ]