Kate Beaton on Creating the Best Graphic Novel of 2022

The cartoonist’s Ducks is a devastating memoir about life in the oil sands of northern Alberta, Canada. Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2022-09-13 11:00:00 UTC ]

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With a new hit film, Netflix has reduced disabled lives to feelgood fodder – and got the facts shockingly wrong | Archie Bland and Ruth Spencer

This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like oursAmazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that, given the appropriate level of parental... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2025-02-11 08:00:11 UTC ]
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Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

I’ve known Lauren Markham’s writing since her first book, The Faraway Brothers, came out in 2017. Then, a couple years ago, I got to know her a bit more as a person when a friend emailed the two of us and another writer to ask our thoughts on writing (and teaching) journalism versus memoir or […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-02-07 09:57:40 UTC ]
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next

In Sarah Chihaya’s memoir Bibliophobia, we enter into the moment of her breakdown—an event that she has seen on her horizon since childhood, but also seemed impossibly remote. As a child of Japanese and Japanese-Canadian immigrants to the US, Chihaya’s parents “didn’t really believe in the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-02-06 09:56:18 UTC ]
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Cost Cuts Lower Losses at Comics Publisher IDW

Across the board reductions helped ameliorate the graphic novel publisher's losses in fiscal 2024 by $3.5 million as sales remained basically flat at $26 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In Search of the Book That Would Save Her Life

Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her. Continue reading at The Atlantic

[ The Atlantic | 2025-01-31 13:00:00 UTC ]
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January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life, Dorian Lynsky’s Everything Must Go, and Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-01-31 09:58:15 UTC ]
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8 New Must-Read Memoirs That Will Take You Around the World

This searing memoir recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean—and find her ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-01-30 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘Source Code,’ by Bill Gates

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Interview: Hanif Kureishi on ‘Shattered’ and His Reading Life

It’s among the more playful matters on his mind in “Shattered,” a memoir of the injury that took away his ability to turn pages — but not his hunger to tell a story. Continue reading at The New York Times

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An Eye-Popping New Sex Memoir From One of Our Greatest Writers Details a Lifetime of Lust. You Won’t Believe the Opening Line.

At 84, Edmund White is ready to kiss (to put it mildly) and tell ... well, everything. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2025-01-28 16:56:52 UTC ]
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How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By the time I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings hit shelves in the first days of 1970, buzz about the memoir had been building for some time. Newspaper stories about its author, Maya Angelou—a well-known dancer, singer, and political activist—had been teasing the book for years; both Ebony and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 09:57:54 UTC ]
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Samuel Teer and Mar Julia's Printz Win: 'Hooting and Hollering'

When Samuel Teer and Mar Julia, author and illustrator of 'Brownstone', received word on Sunday that their graphic novel had won the 2025 Michael L. Printz Award, neither was anticipating the call. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 23, 2024

A cozy fantasy bodyguard romance, a darkly funny memoir exploring the toll of sexism, a new detective duo, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-01-23 17:04:23 UTC ]
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2025 Memoirs to Read With Your Book Club

Activist, Spy, and Icon Josephine Baker's memoir, a bookish memoir about mental illness and identity by a literature professor, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:30:00 UTC ]
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The Best New Book Releases Out January 21, 2025

This week's featured books include the follow up to IRON FLAME, new horror by 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, and a memoir by the most dangerous woman in Africa. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Diamond Comic Distributors Files for Bankruptcy

The company has been a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since its founding in 1982. The future of its comics distribution and graphic novel divisions remains uncertain. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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