“First in the Family” Explores How the American Dream Perpetuates Addiction

In her searing and revolutionary memoir First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream, writer and mental health advocate Jessica Hoppe discusses and inspects addiction and how ingrained the culture is within BIPOC communities, notably within the Latine community. In writing that feels deeply cathartic and personal, she recounts how […] The post “First in the Family” Explores How the American Dream Perpetuates Addiction appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-13 11:00:00 UTC ]

Other news stories related to: "“First in the Family” Explores How the American Dream Perpetuates Addiction"

The Best (and Worst) Queer Books I Read in June

I read eight queer books in June, from a Two-Spirit memoir to nonbinary sci-fi to a lesbian vampire novel. Here's what I thought of them. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-06-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Navigating the unknown: Jon Gluck on his cancer journey and embracing uncertainty

This week on The Most Innovative Podcast, Josh and Yaz sit down with Fast Company senior editor Jon Gluck to discuss his powerful memoir that explores the unexpected twists and emotional terrain of his battle with cancer. This week on The Most Innovative Podcast, Josh and Yaz sit down with Fast... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2025-06-27 18:10:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this

“Sour Cherry” Reinvents a Classic Tale to Interrogate Cycles of Abuse

Sour Cherry, the debut novel from Natalia Theodoridou, is an immersive reinvention of Bluebeard, the French fairytale wherein a repugnant aristocrat murders his wives, one after another. In Sour Cherry, the chronology of a man’s life is narrated to the reader, from motherless childhood through... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2025-06-27 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Miriam Toews’s True Story

In her first memoir in two decades, the author looks back on the writing life and family tragedies with grace and subtle humor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 26, 2025

A Silicon Valley love story, a memoir on growing up undocumented, a woman alone on an island whose dark past comes back to haunt her, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-06-26 15:06:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Exclusive Cover Reveal of “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts” by Kim Fu

Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu, which will be published on March 3, 2026 by Tin House in the US and HarperCollins in Canada. You can pre-order your copy here. From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2025-06-26 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

A Bisexual Chicana Finds Her Voice in “Like Happiness”

Published during the illustrious Year of the Bisexual, Ursula Villarreal-Moura’s thoughtful debut novel Like Happiness popped up on Best of 2024 reading lists wherever you turned, from NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle to ELLE and Them. The two timelines in this novel trace a young woman’s... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2025-06-25 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Mark Peploe obituary

Screenwriter who won an Oscar for Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and provided the screenplay for Antonioni’s The PassengerMark Peploe, who has died aged 82, enjoyed his greatest success as a screenwriter with an Oscar for The Last Emperor (1987). It was shared with the director, Bernardo... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2025-06-23 15:28:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this

How Alison Bechdel Wrote a Memoir That Wasn’t a Memoir

The author’s new comic novel is almost a memoir of her life in Vermont. But not quite. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2025-06-23 13:26:10 UTC ]
More news stories like this

“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

In 1943, M.F.K. Fisher published The Gastronomical Me, an interwar food memoir chronicling her move from the US to Dijon, by way of Strasbourg, Lausanne, Marseille, Guadalajara. At the time, food writing was a genre that neatly sat as a “women’s domain” and TGM was published into a crowded... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-06-23 08:59:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Jennifer Croft on Illustrations and Photos in Memoir

Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey. Originally launched as Write-minded in 2018, this is a weekly... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-06-23 08:01:18 UTC ]
More news stories like this

In ‘Comedy Samurai,' the Writer-Director Larry Charles Tells Tales of Working on ‘Borat’ and ‘Curb’

In his candid memoir “Comedy Samurai,” the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why creative collaborations end. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2025-06-20 14:32:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this

‘You Couldn’t Stop Me from Writing This Book’: PW Talks with E. Jean Carroll

St. Martin’s Press unexpectedly released journalist E. Jean Carroll’s irreverent memoir about suing Donald Trump, Not My Type, on June 17. PW spoke with Carroll about why she wrote the book and why she never shies away from a fight. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

8 Books About the Quiet Power of Libraries and Museums

Anyone who works in a library, in particular an academic library, knows that knowledge is not neutral. The own-the-snowflakes cry of “facts don’t care about your feelings” is not merely rude: it is untrue. A library is not just a repository of knowledge: it is a repository of certain kinds of... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2025-06-17 11:05:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Book Review: ‘Fake Work,’ by Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge’s memoir looks back at her stint as a consultant for a Fortune 500 company at the turn of the millennium: “Is this how companies are put together?” Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2025-06-16 13:29:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Female Hotshot firefighter brings California mega blazes to life in moving memoir

Kelly Ramsey fought California's first gigafire as a member of a Hotshot crew in the state. Her new memoir chronicles her experiences on that blaze — and other major conflagrations. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2025-06-13 10:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

This Week’s Bestsellers: June 16, 2025

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere sits atop our hardcover fiction list. Plus Molly Jong-Fast’s staggering new memoir explains How to Lose Your Mother, and our children’s fiction list welcomes several new YA releases. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this

Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2025

Don’t have time to read every summer reading list? Emily Temple did it for you. Here’s our ultimate summer reading list. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Hanif Abdurraqib looks at the value of breaking down decorum (and the power of unexpected humor). | Lit Hub Memoir Lisa Pratta on exposing corruption... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-06-12 10:30:29 UTC ]
More news stories like this