Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

“A memoir is closer to historical fiction than it is to biography” writes artist and author Jill Ciment in her retrospective memoir Consent. At seventeen, Ciment had an affair with her forty-seven-year-old painting teacher. The two married, and Ciment wrote the original account of the affair in a memoir titled Half A Life at forty-seven […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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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... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Society of Authors calls for celebrity memoir ghostwriters to be credited

Many celebrities’ books are actually written by others, the UK writers’ union says, and it’s time they were acknowledgedThe Society of Authors (SoA) is calling on celebrities and the publishing industry to properly acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly those aimed at... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard insists she'll be a good mom despite helping kill her own

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard spent years in prison for helping to kill her mother. Now she's about to become a parent herself — and is out with a memoir about her childhood Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

Here are this week's bestsellers from the five biggest lists, including part one of Cher's memoir and THE SERVICEBERRY by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Julia Whelan and the Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024

Golden Voice narrator Julia Whelan joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to tell listeners about narrating Kristin Hannah’s memorable historical fiction audiobook, The Women, one of our picks for Best Fiction of 2024. It’s an emotional story about Vietnam War combat nurses, and Julia details how she... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

The last time I wrote a novel set in what I considered to be the present was 2009-2010. The iPhone had appeared in 2007, but it had nothing to do with my characters, who were poor or old or both and lived on the scrappy outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then, my books have […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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On Politics: Andrew Cuomo’s hidden weaknesses

Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor, seems to inch closer and closer to running for mayor.He clearly hoped Mayor Eric Adams, indicted on corruption charges in September, would resign, triggering a special election. Cuomo, for now, seems less enthusiastic about taking on Adams directly.... Continue reading at Crains New York

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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 2, 2024

Pack your ereader with today's bounty of excellent deals from historical fiction to nonfiction, dystopian reads to romance, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

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End the Year Sleuthing: 8 New Mystery, Thrillers, True Crime for December 2024

December's new mysteries and thrillers include a Japanese murder mystery, a true crime memoir of a woman raised by a serial killer, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Cher's real name is the world's dullest surprise: 3 more exciting things about the singer

Cher discovered that mom Georgia Holt had inadvertently put 'Cheryl' on the birth certificate. Luckily, her memoir gets much juicier. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Werner Herzog on Memory, the Elusiveness of Truth, and Sleepwalking Into New Wars

One thing is clear from the get-go: Werner Herzog, the enigmatic German icon of all things Art, likes for things to be precise. He makes sure I know this within the first minutes of our meeting. He is in Paris for48 hours for the release of the French translation of his memoir Every Man for […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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What a 16-Year-Old Doesn’t Yet Know

Cher’s memoir is a valuable document of a young girl thrust into the adult world. Continue reading at The Atlantic

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Interview: Glory Edim on ‘Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me’

Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Richard Flanagan Wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, But Rejects the Cash Prize.

Out of an impressive shortlist, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has won 2024’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Flanagan’s wide-ranging memoir and history weaves together H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, pre-war nuclear physics, his father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the American... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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A Memoir of a Beloved Trans Activist, Author, and Artist

"This is the kind of book that's hard to imagine until you're reading it: it doesn't seem possible, and then it is." Continue reading at Book Riot

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The Most Influential Cookbooks of the Century

25 of the most important cookbooks of the last 100 years, the best historical fiction of 2024, and Martin Scorcese's adaptation plans. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Cher Can, and Does, Turn Back Time

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Lit Hub Weekly: November 11 – 15, 2024

Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America.  | Lit Hub Memoir Lili Anolik explores the tumultuous, iconic, and unmistakably literary friendship between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion. | Lit Hub Biography “I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Lit Hub Daily: November 15, 2024

Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America.  | Lit Hub Memoir “Goodness is neither wisdom nor wealth; ironically, like evil, in its purest form good is not instrumental, utilitarian, or even pragmatic.” Ed Simon on the Seven Deadly Sins and how good... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Book Deals: Week of November 18, 2024

Red Tower takes prolific romance writer Devney Perry’s spicy new romantasy, S&S lands a memoir by major Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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