A Memoir of a Beloved Trans Activist, Author, and Artist

This beautiful memoir by a beloved trans activist rejects the idea that writing about trauma means ignoring joy. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2024-10-28 12:30:00 UTC ]
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Constable snaps up Suchet's 'must have' photographic memoir

Constable has snapped up the “must-have book of Christmas 2019” by David Suchet, charting the actor’s 50-year entertainment career through his photographs and commentary. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-14 13:32:54 UTC ]
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Zaffre bags 'timely' reality show novel from debut author Acton

Zaffre has bagged an "unbelievably timely" debut novel from Helly Acton, which has already been optioned for TV, in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-14 12:23:54 UTC ]
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CI7: Authors and Illustrators to Meet

Close to 70 children’s book creators will be in Pittsburgh to meet with booksellers at educational sessions, signings, and receptions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Life Lessons from Memoirs

Memoirs of faith by Rachel Denhollander, Tom Voss and Rebecca Anne Nguyen, Helen Prejean, and others teach and reassure readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In Vietnam, defying U.S. authorities to rescue U.S. allies

Thurston Clarke recounts how a handful of Americans evacuated 130,000 South Vietnamese. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-06-14 00:22:49 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail snaps up 'devastating' memoir from Fuller

Serpent’s Tail will publish a new memoir by British-Zimbabwean author Alexandra Fuller. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-13 15:11:33 UTC ]
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Penguin rebuts charge of antisemitism against author Pedro Baños

Publisher’s review of How They Rule the World, accused of prejudice in its coverage of the Rothschilds, finds book ‘robust’ but not antisemiticPenguin has undertaken a “thorough” review of one of its books, Spanish colonel Pedro Baños’s How They Rule the World, after allegations of antisemitism... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-06-11 13:01:12 UTC ]
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Icon signs trio of memoirs for 2020

Icon Books has snapped up three "very different but equally compelling memoirs" for 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-10 10:31:29 UTC ]
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Visa issues could stop authors attending Edinburgh Book Festival, warns director

Problems obtaining visas to enter the UK could put off authors from attending the Edinburgh International Book Festival, its director has warned. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-09 05:37:20 UTC ]
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Viking acquires 'Emily Doe' memoir on Brock Turner trial

Viking has acquired a memoir by “Emily Doe”, the woman sexually assaulted by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, telling the story of the attack, trial and her recovery. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-08 13:48:02 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2019: Middle Grade Buzz Authors Discuss Filling Voids

A BookExpo panel on May 31 gathered five creators of buzzed-about middle grade novels to discuss their upcoming works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Former NBA star Dwyane Wade to publish a memoir this fall

Newly retired NBA star Dwyane Wade will tell the story of his life and celebrated basketball career in a new memoir. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-05 17:29:40 UTC ]
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Former NBA star Dwyane Wade to publish a memoir this fall

Newly retired NBA star Dwyane Wade will tell the story of his life and celebrated basketball career in a new memoir. Publisher William Morrow is set to release "3 Dimensional," Wade's second book, this fall. The publisher describes the book as "a deep dive into the mind and heart of one of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-05 17:25:00 UTC ]
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Kathryn Scanlan remixes a found diary and T Fleischmann deconstructs a memoir

Writing is an act of transgression. At least it ought to be, if it aspires not to waste our time. “I can’t escape the language,” T Fleischmann declares in their magnificently uncategorizable “Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” “but that won’t stop me from refusing it anyway, and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-05 16:00:00 UTC ]
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Atwood, Haig and Kay join National Theatre's celebration of authors

Margaret Atwood, Matt Haig and Adam Kay will all take part in the National Theatre's upcoming Authors of Stage series celebrating authors across the world.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 09:38:02 UTC ]
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Actress Kate Mulgrew discovers her past in a memoir about her parents

When Kate Mulgrew was growing up in Iowa, she dreamed of becoming a writer. Then, one day, her mother suggested she would be a much better actress and even tucked a collection of Shakespeare plays under her daughter’s pillow that night to reinforce the point. That decided things. “Roles were... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-31 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Everyday hardship and brutal authorities, in ancient and modern Egypt

With insights from the pharaohs’ era, Peter Hessler explores today’s chaotic Egyptian society. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-05-31 11:43:10 UTC ]
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Northland Kiwi voice artist for Netflix, Facebook wins big at London awards

The British accent you hear on Netflix or Facebook could well be voiced by an award-winning Kiwi from Northland. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2019-05-31 01:14:56 UTC ]
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Rob Zabrecky's memoir 'Strange Cures' is an ode to a forgotten L.A.

In musician and magician Rob Zabrecky's new memoir, "Strange Cures," the Los Angeles of the 1980s and early '90s is an alien landscape of raucous underground nightclubs, seedy Hollywood crack dens and low-rent Silver Lake duplexes; and the Valley is a place where errant teens roam free, sans... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-30 18:01:20 UTC ]
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Rob Zabrecky's memoir 'Strange Cures' is an ode to a forgotten L.A.

In musician and magician Rob Zabrecky’s new memoir, “Strange Cures,” the Los Angeles of the 1980s and early ’90s is an alien landscape of raucous underground nightclubs, seedy Hollywood crack dens and low-rent Silver Lake duplexes; and the Valley is a place where errant teens roam free, sans... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-30 17:55:00 UTC ]
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