Lit Hub Daily: December 11, 2024

Dr. Guy Leschziner explores the science behind the more unsavory aspects of our personalities. | Lit Hub Science  Sara B. Franklin on reading children’s lit in troubled times | Lit Hub Memoir What do we really need from our literary heroes? | Lit Hub Memoir “Every food tells a story, and like any good story, […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Colin Jost has a new memoir — and some thoughts on the end of his SNL run

In ”A Very Punchable Face,” the comedian pulls back the curtain on 30 Rockefeller Plaza and shares sidesplitting anecdotes from an uncannily eventful life. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-15 13:15:00 UTC ]
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Stephanie Danler Performs an Excerpt From Her Memoir Stray

Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by Jude Brewer and with original music composed for each episode, the podcast features the voices of today’s literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction. In this week’s episode, Stephanie Danler reads an... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-14 08:48:18 UTC ]
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The Complexities and Joys of Adult Female Friendship: A Reading List

Women’s friendships have always been fertile ground for literary exploration. One reason we wanted to write a memoir of our own decade-long friendship is that books are one of the few places that have always reflected the intensity and complexity of platonic relationships. The world at large... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-14 08:48:02 UTC ]
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How Do You Write a Memoir of the Unknown?

Write what you know, they say. This is what I know. On November 19, 2013, my younger sister, Sarah, died of a drug overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home. She was 24 years old and an opiate addict. Her body wasn’t found for four days. Her dog was locked inside the house with […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-10 08:47:22 UTC ]
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Why the President Didn’t Want the World to Read Mary Trump’s Story

The new memoir takes you inside a dysfunctional American family—and into Donald Trump’s mind. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2020-07-09 19:25:33 UTC ]
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Mariah Carey's 'unfiltered' memoir to Pan Macmillan

Megastar Mariah Carey's memoir will be published by Pan Macmillan in the UK, promising to tell the “unfiltered” story of the singer's life. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 12:52:18 UTC ]
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Akbar’s memoir of sisterhood, TB and grief to Sceptre

Sceptre has pre-empted Consumed: A Sister’s Story by Guardian chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-08 16:54:24 UTC ]
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I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

This is before, so I’m double-washing only because I’m about to head into the range where Manny, the ex-SWAT, ex-Navy firearms instructor my friend and I have hired, will have his hands around mine. We’ve been learning on decoys for two hours, and now it’s time to shoot for real. I mean to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-08 08:49:20 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Walliams and Hinch winch up the rankings

David Walliams and Tony Ross' The World's Worst Parents (HarperCollins) zipped upwards 11 places to the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top spot, as Mrs Hinch's memoir This is Me (Michael Joseph), due to be released in October, swept straight to the top of Most-Sold: Non-Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-08 08:45:20 UTC ]
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Virago wins eight-way auction for memoir exploring racial justice

Virago has acquired I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown in an eight-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 21:39:52 UTC ]
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Viking pre-empts Wang's 'remarkable' memoir of undocumented childhood

Viking has pre-empted a “remarkable” memoir by lawyer Qian Julie Wang about her childhood spent in severe poverty as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 18:57:02 UTC ]
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There’s a new Trump tell-all memoir coming. Just what we need.

The dubious genre of Trump tell-all memoirs has a new member: Melania & Me, written by a previous advisor to Melania Trump, which will be published by the Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books on September 1. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, once a confidante of the First Lady, fell out with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-07 18:28:06 UTC ]
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Who Saves an Emergency Room Doctor? Her Patients

Michele Harper’s memoir could not be more timely. Also, if you think your job is stressful, take a walk in this author’s white coat. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-07-07 11:16:04 UTC ]
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Phillip Schofield's memoir to Michael Joseph

TV presenter Phillip Schofield has revealed he is publishing his autobiography with Michael Joseph this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 10:04:39 UTC ]
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Who Is Duchess Goldblatt?

A memoir from a Twitter celebrity doesn’t name names, but it does provide an entertaining back story. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-07-07 09:00:09 UTC ]
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Nigel Slater's Toast returns in digital production

It has been a TV film, a play and now the chef's memoir has been adapted to help a local theatre. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2020-07-06 23:02:05 UTC ]
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Lacy Crawford’s ‘Notes on a Silencing’ is a haunting exploration of the systematic ways assault victims are ignored

Crawford’s memoir looks back at her own assault at a prestigious boarding school. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-05 08:02:09 UTC ]
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Up at Oxford

“Surely some revelation is at hand.” ¤ A MEMOIR BY the journalist and sportswriter Simon Kuper appeared in the Financial Times in late July last year. It was about Kuper’s time at Oxford from the late 1980s onward, when he overlapped with Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart at Balliol College. Young... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-02 13:00:48 UTC ]
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One critic’s summer reading list: From a scandalous memoir to obscure literary journalism

Michael Dirda is taking a vacation next month, and he’s already getting his to-be-read pile in order. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-01 16:17:23 UTC ]
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Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account

“Becoming Duchess Goldblatt” is a memoir by the writer behind a beloved fictional character whose fans include Lyle Lovett and Celeste Ng. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-07-01 14:20:37 UTC ]
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