Last night, Variety reported that Lakeith Stanfield (also known as the actual best part of Atlanta, there I said it, don’t @ me) to star in a feature film adaptation of Kwame Onwuachi’s Notes From a Young Black Chef—which is an essential cooking memoir that you should go read immediately if you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-16 14:28:13 UTC ]
Imagine that you are a character from a classic tale pitching your memoir to a literary agent. You know that it will become the next bestseller. Write your query letter, story synopsis, or elevator pitch to the agent. The post It’s My Story and I’ll Pitch if I Want To by Cassandra Lipp appeared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-07-16 09:00:28 UTC ]
Virago has scooped an "eye-opening” memoir from broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, based around what she sees from the upper deck of a London bus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 11:56:36 UTC ]
As we descend into the hazy thick of summer, this week’s book events remind us that one day in a life has the power to change everything. Indeed, it’s all that ever changes anything. In the memoir corner, we have a traumatic encounter at the train station, a knock on the door of a rundown... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-12 14:20:00 UTC ]
A pitcher who had modest success with the Yankees in the 1960s, Bouton revealed the seamier side of baseball in a book that was a best seller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-11 02:47:37 UTC ]
“How was the church food of your youth?” and other questions for Amber Scorah on her new memoir about leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2019-07-05 13:00:54 UTC ]
Former prime minister David Cameron will “talk candidly” to mark the publication of his long-awaited autobiography, For The Record (William Collins), in a series of events. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 16:12:23 UTC ]
JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON’S memoir Crabcakes begins with the death of his tenant, Mrs. Channie Washington. A traditional memoir might have sketched McPherson’s upbringing: the strapped childhood in segregated Savannah, Georgia, as the son of an electrician and a maid, and his ascent to Harvard Law... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-04 12:30:37 UTC ]
The former baseball commissioner, whose new memoir is “For the Good of the Game,” was a voracious childhood reader, “mostly about sports,” and especially “novels about the Brooklyn Dodgers.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-04 09:00:07 UTC ]
Good news, memoir fans: Variety reports that Dani Shapiro’s bestselling memoir Inheritance will be adapted into a feature by Killer Films, with Cami Delavigne (the co-writer of Blue Valentine) on board to write the script. The memoir centers on Shapiro’s discovery, after a DNA test, that the man... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-03 13:43:07 UTC ]
Book Reviews Alan Levenson Ever since early Islam, Jews have been dubbed the people of the book. The title stuck in European lands too, a deferential nod to the role of the Hebrew Bible in the Western canon, the breadth of Jewish literacy (never... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-07-02 20:46:30 UTC ]
SPCK has signed ex-Lib Dem leader Tim Farron’s “gripping” autobiography, detailing how he balanced being a Christian and a Liberal during his political career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 12:23:42 UTC ]
A short list of books includes a personal memoir about a family’s struggle with schizophrenia, a history of psychiatry and an exploration of how tyrants think. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-28 22:41:56 UTC ]
“A Good American Family,” by David Maraniss, examines the paranoia and brutality of the McCarthy era through the lens of his father’s experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-28 15:12:51 UTC ]
Ebury will publish the memoir of Holocaust survivor and concentration camp librarian Dita Kraus, who inspired the novel The Librarian of Auschwitz (Ebury). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 06:34:21 UTC ]
Interviews Shelly Bhoil Tenzin Dickie is a Tibetan writer and translator and editor of The Treasury of Lives, a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Her edited anthology, Old Demons, New Deities: 21 Short Stories from... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-06-25 14:25:59 UTC ]
Philip H. Geier, Jr., the long-time chairman and CEO of the advertising giant known as The Interpublic Group of Companies, died on Wednesday, June 19, at the age of 84. Over the course of his nearly six-decade-long career, Geier made a name for himself in the worlds of both advertising and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-06-24 19:42:28 UTC ]
The title of Bobby Hundreds’ book — “This Is Not a T-Shirt” — is straight-up transparent: It’s not a T-shirt. It’s less obvious at the outset — but not for long — that it’s also not a traditional memoir, brand history or “how-we-turned-a couple-hundred bucks-into-global-streetwear-label”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-20 15:40:00 UTC ]
The title of Bobby Hundreds' book — "This Is Not a T-Shirt" — is straight-up transparent: It's not a T-shirt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-20 15:30:01 UTC ]
On a quest to make sense of what was happening to her body, the author Darcey Steinke sought guidance from female killer whales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-06-18 14:40:31 UTC ]