The Case for Writing a Memoir in Essays

When Sonja Livingston began to write about her life with an itinerant mother and six siblings in the raw corners of western New York, she wrote, she says, in snatches. “I wrote of living in apartments and tents and motel rooms. Of places where corn and cabbage grew in great swaths. Of the Iroquois on […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Michelle Obama's memoir sells more than 10m copies

Former first lady’s Becoming is a global hit in 31 languages and has sold 600,000 copies in UKMichelle Obama’s autobiography, Becoming, is on track to become the most successful memoir in modern publishing history, selling more than 10m copies to date, as life after the White House continues to... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Feminist Fairy Tales’: Authors Talk About Writing ‘Other Kinds of Books’

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The rise of robot authors: is the writing on the wall for human novelists?

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Picador bags Laing's essay collection on importance of art

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clune's teenage punchbag memoir snapped up by Coronet

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Review: ‘Lackawanna Blues’ is potent as live memoir, an actor’s tribute to the woman who rescued him

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Virago goes for Syrian activist Mrie’s memoir

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Tyndale to Publish #MeToo Memoir by Former Gymnast

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Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! to publish memoir of his and George Michael’s halcyon days

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Picador signs Boochani memoir written on WhatsApp in detention centre

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S&S UK lands Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness' memoir

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