Telling It Like It Is: Roz Chast

Roz Chast is grasping for a word, her hands raised as if to catch it between her palms, as she tries to describe what it felt like to have finished her new book, "Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" (Bloomsbury, May). Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U.S. Book Show 2023: Roz Chast

Roz Chast will discuss her forthcoming collection 'I Must Be Dreaming,' a compendium of illustrated dreams, with fellow 'New Yorker' cartoonist Emily Flake on May 23. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Telling tales: Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press celebrates 25 years of championing truth-telling fiction

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Tell Us Your Favorite Fall Food and We’ll Tell You What National Book Award Nominee to Read

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Steam now tells gamers up front that they're buying a license, not a game

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Sky News’ Sharri Markson tells Benjamin Netanyahu Labor is ‘hostile’ to Israel in ‘confidential’ meeting | The Weekly Beast

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Stop press: it’s the very last Evening Standard in London today. And that tells us a lot about Britain in 2024 | James Hanning

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Oprah Winfrey names Elizabeth Strout's 'Tell Me Everything' as her latest book club pick

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Melania Trump to tell her story in memoir scheduled for this fall

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Suzanne Scanlon’s Memoir Confronts the Stories We Don’t Tell About Women and Madness

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Column: Anthony Fauci has a right to savage Trump. His memoir takes a different and telling approach

The physician and researcher who weathered the COVID pandemic, the HIV/AIDS crisis and countless Republican conspiracy theories has a new book. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Bill Gates to tell his ‘origin story’ in memoir

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GLAAD's first annual gaming report is here to tell us how gay games are

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The Morning After: Senate tells social media CEOs they have ‘blood on their hands’

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‘Going Infinite’ Audiobook Review: Michael Lewis Tells His Own Story of Sam Bankman-Fried

“Going Infinite” may have missed the big takeaway, but it offers at least one undeniable pleasure: deep access. Continue reading at The New York Times

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A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel's final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell

The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes. Continue reading at The Conversation

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You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

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