Jerry Della Femina, an icon of the advertising industry whose memoir about Madison Avenue’s rollicking heyday provided fodder for the hit cable series Mad Men, has a new campaign: selling his home.Della Femina and his wife, former TV journalist Judy Licht, have put their Upper East Side townhouse on the market for $7.9 million, according to a listing that appeared Tuesday.It’s not the first time the couple has tried to attract a buyer for 124 E. 62nd St., a five-floor, five-bedroom prewar property between Park and Lexington avenues. Indeed, between 2017 and 2018, Della Femina and Licht also marketed the property, asking about $10 million in that go-around, according to StreetEasy.Although No. 124 is now selling for about 20% less, a likely nod to a much softer market, the townhouse—which has two living rooms, each with a fireplace; a library adjacent to a balcony; and a fountain-centered garden—could still offer some upside. The couple paid $2.3 million for the shutter-lined, 19-foot-wide site in 1995, records show.A Brooklyn native who joined his first ad agency in 1952 at the age of 16, Della Femina and his various firms have crafted memorable spots for a long list of brands prominent in the late 20th century, including Beck’s, PanAm, Isuzu, Blue Nun and Dow Chemical.But his perhaps most famous earworm, which came by way of his agency Della Femina Travisano & Partners, was a jingle to promote the Meow Mix brand that featured a cat purring a melody of repeating... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Liv's Alone by Liv Thorne, an "honest and hopeful memoir that captures the joy and the challenge that is parenting alone by choice". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-09 12:38:16 UTC ]
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Another day, another announcement of a memoir from a former Trump collaborator. This time, it’s Fiona Hill, an ex-advisor who testified in Trump’s impeachment inquiry, whose “views about the future of a polarized America” will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021. I have nothing... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-06 19:59:16 UTC ]
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Sara Faith Alterman's "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a memoir about strange family dynamics, love, grief and the benefits of finally opening up. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-05 18:00:51 UTC ]
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It would be easy to summarize Being Lolita as a memoir about a toxic, exploitative relationship between a high school English teacher and his student, and it is about that—but it’s about that in the way Walden is about a pond. Continue reading at The Paris Review
[ The Paris Review | 2020-08-04 16:08:33 UTC ]
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On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Morgan Jerkins, author of Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, published by Harper. In this fascinating historical memoir, Jerkins explores her identity and heritage by tracing... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-03 19:36:31 UTC ]
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A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to reconcile past traumas—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2020-08-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Trethewey’s memoir is a tribute to a life snuffed out by a brutal man, a fractured judicial system and a patriarchy as old as Methuselah. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury's Green Tree is to publish Liz Fraser's memoir Coming Clean: A True Story of Love, Addiction and Recovery next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 11:02:40 UTC ]
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I met David Adjmi at a fancy writing residency. The kind of place where you work all day alone and then eat dinner together, have a drink in the parlor afterwards. I remember a night when someone suggested watching a movie. As people were perusing the house copy of the criterion collection... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-07-31 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribner buy a book about American’s first female astronauts, Matthew McConaughey sells a memoir to Crown, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
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On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Laura Lippman, author of My Life as a Villainess, published by William Morrow. In this wry essay collection she writes movingly about becoming a mom in her fifties, choices she made in her career as a journalist and a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-30 18:00:43 UTC ]
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The new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is an aching investigation of trauma and art. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-07-30 10:06:53 UTC ]
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Katy Waldman writes about “Memorial Drive,” a new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, who pieces together memories of her mother, who was murdered by Trethewey’s stepfather. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2020-07-29 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Let your summer getaway include a new Sherlock Holmes adventure, a memoir about reinvention, and two novels that offer insights on racial identity. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-28 21:20:01 UTC ]
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Let your summer getaway include a new Sherlock Holmes adventure, a memoir about reinvention, and two novels that offer insights on racial identity. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-28 21:20:01 UTC ]
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Let your summer getaway include a new Sherlock Holmes adventure, a memoir about reinvention, and two novels that offer insights on racial identity. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-07-28 21:20:01 UTC ]
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NATASHA TRETHEWEY’S Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir is a breakthrough book that artfully balances prose and lyricism as it guides us through unspeakable trauma. Prior to our conversation, I felt a bond with Natasha since I spent much of my youth “as the girl whose brother committed suicide.”... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-28 12:30:40 UTC ]
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Production company Bad Wolf has optioned Terri White's memoir Coming Undone (Canongate, 2020) for TV. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 05:17:52 UTC ]
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What we can learn from books by politicians and their family members: Your weekly guide to the best in books Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2020-07-24 16:52:28 UTC ]
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In this roundup of the best-reviewed BookLife titles, we highlight a sci-fi mystery, a memoir of personal discovery, a Viking saga, and others. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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