Benjamin Taylor on his award-winning memoir: It’s the past that is knowable, incandescent, real

“When you’re living your life, it doesn’t feel like a story. It only feels like a story when you look back on it,” says Benjamin Taylor. In the style of his memoir, “The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered,” winner of The Times’ 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose,... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Transworld is to publish a memoir from physicist Professor Stephen Hawking. The book, My Brief... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic-Con 2013: A look at past comic books and a glimpse of the genre's future (+video)

Gerard Jones, author of 'Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book,' explains the origins of comic books, the hardships they went through, and where they are apt to go next. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Second Theakstons crime award for Mina

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shelton and Fickling win Branford Boase

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wimpy Kid overall winner at BMS marketing awards

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hutchinson to reveal the real King John

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Outsider: A Memoir

Tennis great Jimmy Connors reveals the source of the fire that burned within during his Hall of Fame career. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Wins a Round in Book-Scanning Suit

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the approval of a class of authors in a long-running lawsuit against Google Inc. over its efforts to electronically scan millions of books from public and university libraries in order to make them available online. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W&N signs Rebecca Front memoir

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Barber wins Desmond Elliott

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BMS marketing awards shortlists revealed

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prizes: “Maggot Moon” Wins Carnegie, “Black Dog” Takes Kate Greenaway

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daring World War II memoir may be a little too Hollywood

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[ Stuff | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S investigates memoir claims

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ BBC News | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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