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 ]
ABC’s Black-ish spinoff joins a new memoir by Thomas Chatterton Williams in presenting a seemingly enlightened but ahistorical view of race. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-10-26 13:00:00 UTC ]
Duras’s body of work is a reminder that it’s okay to press send, to publish your drafts.” On Marguerite Duras, proto-internet essayist. | Lit Hub Memoir “Space flight is not being powered by people doing reasonable things.” Peter Ward explores the fraught history (and inevitable future) of space... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-26 10:30:56 UTC ]
Stop whatever it is you’re doing and pay attention to me because I have, just this morning, stumbled upon some joyous, and potentially game-changing, literary news: Val Kilmer is releasing a memoir. Yes, friends, according to Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster will publish I’m Your... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-25 16:13:04 UTC ]
“Little Weirds,” a new collection by the actress and comedian, isn’t the funny memoir you might have expected. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-25 09:00:27 UTC ]
Chatto & Windus has triumphed in a hotly-contested eight-way auction to publish an "extraordinarily brave" memoir about faith, loss and addiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 09:08:05 UTC ]
Head of Zeus has picked up a memoir of Belfast by poet and writer Ciaran Carson, who passed away earlier this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-22 01:49:57 UTC ]
Columnist, editor and author hailed as ‘fearless’, after her death at the age of 57Friends and colleagues have responded to the death of the journalist and author Deborah Orr with a flood of tributes, describing the longtime Guardian columnist as fearless, hilarious, and “a lioness in a world... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-10-21 15:54:16 UTC ]
Complete with endorsements from Donald Trump and Judy Murray, the parody jacket turned up in a branch of FoylesThere are large acts of protest, such as the People’s Vote march that took place in London on Saturday. And then there are smaller ones, such as the work of the as yet unidentified... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-10-21 12:46:59 UTC ]
Motherwell, the incisive memoir by Deborah Orr, unpicks the complexities of familial relationships. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-21 06:10:58 UTC ]
In his memoir “Long Way Home,” Michael Douglas’s oldest son examines the “demented death wish” that drove him to drugs and crime, shining a light on his famous family along the way. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-19 09:00:12 UTC ]
Chuck Schwab said his company will soon introduce fractional-stock trading and other services designed to appeal to younger clients. The founder and chairman of Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that introducing the new services is the next step after dropping... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-10-18 18:05:16 UTC ]
The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers, written by Elisa Gabbert (specializing in nonfiction), John Cotter (specializing in fiction), and Ruoxi Chen (specializing in publishing). If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to [email protected].... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-18 11:00:04 UTC ]
HarperCollins imprint HQ will publish a "heartwrenching" post-Holocaust memoir from the mother of Jonathan Safran Foer, the story of which was the basis for his bestselling 2002 novel, Everything is Illuminated. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 20:21:07 UTC ]