Review: ‘Lackawanna Blues’ is potent as live memoir, an actor’s tribute to the woman who rescued him

“Lackawanna Blues,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York city near Buffalo, was turned into a TV movie that won S. Epatha Merkerson an Emmy Award. But the compact stage... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

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'Nine Continents' is Chinese author Xiaolu Guo’s resonant memoir about leaving her past

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AT&T chief says CNN coverage of Trump should not be an obstacle in merger review

AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson indicated that President Trump’s tensions with CNN should not factor into the federal government’s blessing of AT&T’s proposed $85-billion purchase of Time Warner Inc., which owns the cable news network. “I don’t know what the relevance is of CNN... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Akala's 'powerful' memoir to Two Roads

John Murray Press imprint Two Roads has signed a personal memoir by BAFTA and MOBO-award winning artist Akala which is also a political book about race and class. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac wins Joe Biden memoir

Pan Macmillan has won an auction to publish the memoir of former US vice president Joe Biden in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Australian Wonder Woman comic book artist tells Avatar director to calm down

Australian comic book artist Nicola Scott is hitting back at director James Cameron's recent criticism of the Wonder Woman movie, telling him he needs to "calm down". Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Significant Zero' and 'Blood Sweat and Pixels' Review: Taking On Game Development, and the Demon That Is "Crunch"

Two recent books take readers into the pressure cooker that videogame development can so often become. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador signs second medical memoir from Adam Kay

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How smearing a woman’s reputation was irresistible for the media | Nick Cohen

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VideoPad Video Editor review: A great starter kit for up-and-coming social media stars

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[ PC World | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon redacts one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton's What Happened

Hundreds of damning verdicts on memoir of 2016 presidential race, posted within hours of publication, have been removed by the online booksellerHundreds of one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s memoir What Happened, which appeared online within hours of the 512-page book’s publication, have been... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Live API Updates Shoot for Professional-Quality Videos

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James and Smith join Blue Peter Book Awards as judges

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher pays tribute to 'Titan of theatre' Peter Hall

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'Riveting' Tim Waterstone memoir on submission

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Kolman urges review of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law

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Long-term Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton to publish memoirs

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[ The Guardian | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can Blue Apron Deliver on Cookbooks?

The meal delivery service is releasing its first cookbook in October and its publisher, Harper Wave, has big ambitions. The imprint has called the title "the new culinary bible" and claims it deserves a place on the shelf alongside such classics as 'The Silver Palate' and 'The Joy of Cooking.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Carcanet pays tribute to poet John Ashbery

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French book site will review whole Rentrée Littéraire

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The 10 Best Graphic Memoirs

Mimi Pond, author of the new graphic memoir 'The Customer Is Always Wrong,' picks her 10 favorite graphic memoirs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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