Daphne Merkin’s new book, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression, is at once an exploration of her own mental health and a memoir of her experiences growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family with a complicated, domineering mother. “My mother was only nice to me when I was sick,” Merkin writes, in one of many passages that take on added meaning as the book unfolds. (She also details the way in which her parents, who escaped Nazi Germany, ignored her and her siblings and allowed a nursemaid to abuse them.) Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avalanche: A Love Story, is a play based on the author's memoir detailing the anguish of her six unsuccessful attempts at IVF. It depicts doctors who prey upon an ageing woman’s despair and the stigma attached to 'failed' mothers. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2019-09-03 02:31:44 UTC ]
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Actor-filmmaker Mark Webber mines personal experience for “Flesh and Blood,” a quasi-memoir that hearkens back to the raw, adventurous American cinema of the ’60s and ’70s. The movie bleeds honesty, though its individual components are more memorable than how they’re assembled. Webber plays the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad Age's Survival Guide maps the changes and challenges in the year ahead, from new ad-tech wars to shifting policies in Washington, D.C.As digital marketers confronted rampant problems with online metrics last year, they were especially jolted by Facebook, which revealed in a series of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Black publishing industry figures weigh in on ERASURE and AMERICAN FICTION, Becky Chambers gets a Folio edition, and more, today in books. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-02-06 15:31:08 UTC ]
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“The world here beats faster than a hummingbird’s wings,” writes Alexandra Chang in her new collection Tomb Sweeping. Chang, the author of Days of Distraction and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 recipient, writes poignantly about tenuous connection. In these stories, a wealthy housewife... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2023-11-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Across memoir and fiction, Fae Myenne Ng has explored the true cost of the Chinese Exclusion era. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2023-09-26 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Safiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet. Why it took her more than a decade to write the lyrical memoir 'How to Say Babylon' Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-08-28 15:00:14 UTC ]
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The celebrated humor columnist skewered the powerful, and secretly battled depression, for decades. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-09-09 10:00:13 UTC ]
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“All responses to the world take place within our bodies.” –Gloria Anzaldúa * In putting together my book and making selections from past work, I desperately wanted to include a poem from my high school literary magazine to give readers a glimpse of my inner emo goth self. I emailed a librarian... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-07 08:52:12 UTC ]
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"Knocking Myself Up," Michelle Tea’s "memoir of (in)fertility," will resonate across generations. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-08-25 12:00:17 UTC ]
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C. J. Hauser’s memoir-in-essays is a frank exploration of intimacy and romance that doesn’t always lead to a happily ever after. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-07-05 13:21:38 UTC ]
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Academic publishing: For speed to publication and interdisciplinary collaboration, Springer Nature partners with RWTH Aachen. The post ‘Research Pain Points’: Springer Nature Opens Its ‘Crosstracts’ Format appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-02-21 16:17:13 UTC ]
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The memoirist Sarah Manguso’s first novel is about a young girl’s life in a small, snowy New England town. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2022-02-06 10:00:06 UTC ]
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HQ has snapped up "an accessible and practical" book on pain management by osteopath, coach and massage therapist James Davies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 07:33:42 UTC ]
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“Names for Light,” by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, is a memoir recounted through the stories of family members. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-08-18 12:41:21 UTC ]
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The “Saturday Night Live” comedian’s “This Will All Be Over Soon” looks back at her beloved cousin’s cancer diagnosis and death. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
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‘All’s Well’ is a darkly comic tale of a suffering theater professor and a troubled production of Shakespeare. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-06 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Scott Ellsworth’s book centers on the voices and experiences of the city’s Black residents. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The musician rose above heroin addiction, music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth to find success. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-13 12:00:00 UTC ]
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