Interviews Victoria Chang’s new collection, Dear Memory, expands the field of the memoir for readers to explore a full-color archive of family photos and historical documents collaged between lines of poetry and letters. It prompts us to ask, with her, What composes a life and what makes of life art? What makes of memory history, and whose history, and how do we survive loss? We might expect the author of five books of poetry and two children’s books to incorporate the lyric in her first book of nonfiction, but Chang goes further. If her memories arrive at times as poetry, she denies them the protection of a poem. For instance, at the end of a letter that begins, “Do you remember those Fridays in gym class . . . ,” she realizes that memory may be “the exit wound of joy.” Such insights pierce us before we can register surprise. Elsewhere, she covers her mother’s mouth with three Mandarin characters in the photo on her certificate of naturalization, inserting her reservation into the official record along with her daughter’s grief. I reached out to Chang, moved by this book’s innovative form. “It was always my goal as a writer to be able to make whatever I want,” she told me via Zoom video hosted by the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University, which she directs. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN Voelcker Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2022-01-05 19:50:39 UTC ]
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Six debut novels make up the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction shortlist for the first time in the award's 35-year history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 02:00:15 UTC ]
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Academic publisher Springer Nature has launched a name change policy to enable transgender scholars and writers to update their name on published works. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-29 23:20:28 UTC ]
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The debut collection of Warsan Shire, a former Young Poet Laureate of London who has collaborated with Beyoncé, will be published by Chatto & Windus in collaboration with flipped eye. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-29 17:33:15 UTC ]
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The rediscovered, initially unpublished, novel by Richard Wright, 'The Man Who Lived Underground,' has been optioned by Paramount in a seven-figure deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon Books has acquired Sarah Goodwin's debut Stranded, plus one more untitled novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 00:42:01 UTC ]
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Aquarius Films is producing "Fight Like A Girl", a comedy drama TV series based on the book of the same name by Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-20 20:08:56 UTC ]
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Nathan Harris sets his novel in Georgia during the murky twilight of the Civil War. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-15 07:08:15 UTC ]
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Publishing a debut novel is never easy. 100,000 long-form works of English-language fiction are published every year and even in normal circumstances it’s a struggle to for a first-time novelist to stand out from the pack. But the last 15 or so months have been particularly trying. Full lockdown... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-12 22:02:54 UTC ]
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Mirror Books will publish a guide to reducing your carbon footprint from ITV meteorologist and climate change expert Laura Tobin. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-12 18:03:38 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton has won a three-publisher auction for The Trio by Johanna Hedman, a “strikingly elegant” literary debut which has been snapped up in a flurry of deals by editors across Europe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 10:06:48 UTC ]
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In a paper released this week, the American Library Association’s Joint Digital Content Working Group offered a frank assessment of the state of the library e-book market and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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“Rememberings,” the musician’s memoir, is an attempt to piece together her fragmented history. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-02 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Interviews Photo by Oluwaseyi Johnson / Unsplash I was lucky to meet Romalyn Ante when I was invited to read at a virtual event organized by R. A. Villanueva and hosted by Books Are Magic in August 2020. Ante was the guest of honor at the event,... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-06-02 11:57:51 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Ireland has pre-empted a debut novel by award-winning actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan, to be published in 2023. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-28 22:53:36 UTC ]
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Mya-Rose Craig is a Bristol-based ornithologist who has been blogging about birds as Birdgirl since she was 11. She first gained fame after being featured on the 2010 BBC Four documentary “Twitchers: A Very British Obsession”, and has appeared on “Springwatch”, “Countryfile” and “The One... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-28 04:43:18 UTC ]
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Lisa Taddeo, whose book "Three Women" broke the mold of immersive journalism, talks about her first novel, "Animal," and the struggle to write and live. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-05-27 13:00:06 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker senior editor Ellie Steel has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights at auction for Diary of a Void by debut Japanese author Emi Yagi. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-24 04:35:05 UTC ]
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Haymarket Books has acquired the rights to publish the third edition of Black Liberation activist and scholar Angela Davis's autobiography, originally published in 1974. The book will be released in October with a new introduction by Davis. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A “heart-racing” thriller, How Far Will You Go, by debut author Dandy Smith has been signed by Embla Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-24 03:03:50 UTC ]
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Transworld has snapped up world rights for "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Lawrence Chaney’s memoir, which will "delight and inspire readers." Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-20 10:23:40 UTC ]
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