This film about Misha Defonseca, author of a ‘memoir’ about escaping the Nazis and sheltering with wolves as a child, is propulsively watchable“Sometimes a story is so astonishing it’s unbelievable.” So said a Massachusetts radio presenter in the 90s, introducing Misha Defonseca, a local Jewish woman originally from Belgium. As a child in the war, Defonseca walked hundreds of miles across Nazi-occupied Germany to find her parents. She was one of Belgium’s “hidden children”, taken in by a Catholic family, her identity erased. In her internationally bestselling memoir she described how, cold and hungry, she was sheltered by a pack of wolves. Disney wanted to turn it into a film. Oprah Winfrey’s book club was interested.The thing is: Defonseca was a fake. Never mind a pack of wolves, her whole memoir was a pack of lies; a hoax Holocaust narrative. This documentary assembles the story like a thriller, interviewing the key players, keeping the audience guessing about certain important details until the end. It’s propulsively watchable if a tad light on reflection. And you may feel hoodwinked by one late reveal. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-02 06:00:18 UTC ]
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
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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 ]
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Hello Sunshine and iHeartMedia team up on a Reese's Book Club podcast, the most recommendable books of the century so far, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-18 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Reese's Book Club is getting a weekly podcast, starting June 24th: Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club, hosted by Danielle Robay. Continue reading at Book Riot
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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
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Nerd out over reading even more with these fun, cute, and clever book club stickers. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-16 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Because it's Friday and we're owed an ounce of joy--adaptation news for THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, Dua Lipa's book club expands, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-13 15:10:00 UTC ]
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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
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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 ]
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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 ]
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Oprah's latest Book Club pick is her 115th and brings the return of one of her favorite writers. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-11 14:04:15 UTC ]
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This bestseller could have faded into obscurity, but it collected accolades with an entertaining story and sharp social commentary. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-10 12:30:00 UTC ]
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Everand, the online e-book and audiobook subscription service and subsidiary of Scribd, has acquired the social reading and book club app Fable, which has three million users and hosts more than 100,000 book clubs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Geoff Dyer's memoir about growing up in the U.K. during the '70s bursts with working-class pride. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2025-06-09 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir ‘The Salt Path,’ which has now been made into a film, explores a centuries-old tradition of healing along the southwest coast. Moth Winn was diagnosed with a terminal illness at the age of 53 and in the same week he and his wife, Raynor, lost their home. As the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2025-06-07 08:30:00 UTC ]
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A sapphic opposites-attract romance, a memoir on grief, witches in the Orkney Islands, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-05 16:39:23 UTC ]
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Anelise Chen’s hybrid memoir starts with an ingenious typo: Clam down, Chen’s mother texts her as she copes with her divorce, and poof!, the protagonist becomes a clam, determined to learn everything about her species and kin. Though its namesake is a sedentary bottom feeder, Clam Down... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-06-05 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Even the First Lady wanted to party. In her memoir Becoming, Michelle Obama describes the night in June 2015 following the announcement of the opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case legalizing same-sex marriage across the United States. Increasingly “desperate to join the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Toni Morrison's time as an editor at Random House, modern Indian recipes, a new memoir by a Palestinian poet, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
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The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-06-03 14:35:35 UTC ]
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