Vogue's longtime creative director writes about the names behind the pages. Do Anna Wintour, Pat Cleveland or Helmut Newton ring a bell?GraceA Memoir Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French cartoonist Riad Sattouf spent the earliest years of his life in three dictatorships. One dictator was Col. Moammar Kadafi, the "supreme leader" of Libya, where Sattouf and his parents moved when he was 2. Another was President Hafez Assad of Syria, where they relocated when he was 4.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What's old is new again. Publishers including Mic, Ozy and Skift are trying to seduce readers into signing up for their newsletters by cajoling them with cash and trips. The scheme takes a page from the the playbook of Publishers Clearing House, which uses contests to great effect (and... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clickbait headlines and A/B testing may be publishers’ go-to growth tactics on Facebook and Twitter, but to boost their email subscriptions, they are adopting a more old-fashioned scheme: the contest. Millennial news site Mic, for ex ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks director to join forces with journalist Kristine McKenna for an autobiographical study of his life and workThe director David Lynch has teamed up with the journalist Kristine McKenna to hit back at the “bullshit” surrounding his life and work in a book due to be... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a memoir described as “Eat, Pray, Love meets Wild”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We got good suggestions for what Phil Collins should title his memoir, but one was obviously the best and only choice... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and noted free speech activist, is writing his memoirs that will be published in 2017 by Crown, the publisher announced this week. The book will be published in multiple countries in print, audio and digital formats and is expected to cover the artist's life,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bodley Head is to publish a “sweeping memoir” by artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. As yet untitled, the book will be simultaneously published in the UK and in the US by Crown in spring 2017. Stuart Williams, publishing director at The Bodley Head, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House's Viking division is to publish novelist John le Carré's memoir. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book recounts Fleet Street’s days of unlimited expenses amid an alcoholic hazeFleet Street memoirs are often difficult to read without wincing. Too many veteran reporters, and former editors for that matter, tend to think their reminiscences of “amusing” times past are both entertaining and also... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I'm about to start reading Grace Jones' memoir ("I'll Never Write My Memoirs"). I can't imagine this not being terrific. She's been helped by Paul Morley who is a great writer. But also it's Grace Jones. I remember being mesmerised by her when I was a young kid - the Island Life LP is my go-to... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schumer, who wrote and starred in this summer's movie 'Trainwreck,' will reportedly release a memoir through Gallery Books in 2016. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown has signed a book by Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi. Richard Beswick won world English language rights, excluding America, in an auction to Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story from Barbara Zitwer at the Barbara J Zitwer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Successful football coach Carlo Ancelotti is to write a management memoir for Portfolio Penguin. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches will be published in spring 2016. In Quiet Leadership, Ancelotti will reveal the full story of his managerial career - his methods, mentors,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Dancing Through Life' chronicles Candace Cameron Bure's experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' while the actress explores her Christian faith. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has acquired a “memoir of reinvention” by Camas Davis, who learnt to become a butcher after her personal and professional life crumbled. Editor Sophie Jonathan bought UK and Commonwealth rights in Killing It from Cullen Stanley at Janklow & Nesbit acting on behalf of Emma Parry. In... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Roads has acquired an originally self-published memoir by the general manager of Opera Holland Park. Michael Volpe’s Noisy at the Wrong Times was chosen by The Bookseller’s Caroline Sanderson as an Independent Author pick in April, and was named by the Sunday Times as one of its “100... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago has acquired the memoir of American musician, actor and writer Carrie Brownstein. Ursula Doyle, associate publisher of Virago, bought UK rights in the memoir, titled Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, from Hal Fessenden at Penguin Random House US. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press has bought Ctrl, Alt; Delete, a memoir about growing up online, by journalist and blogger Emma Gannon [pictured]. Commissioning editor Sara Cywinski has bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the book, in which Gannon talks about subjects from editing photos for MySpace to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline has acquired the memoirs of “global rugby legend” Dan Carter. Carter is a New Zeland player, and is the most capped All Blacks' fly-half of all time. His autobiography will be released after the All Blacks’ last game at this year’s Rugby World Cup, which takes place in England and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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