"A Warning" underwhelms literary reviewers

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Warning by Anonymous, who claims to be an insider in the Trump administration, notched some impressive early sales numbers....

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book reviews, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics

Translator Jennifer Croft explores her roots in a memoir, "Homesick"

Posted on 11/15/2019 at 01:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Coverage of Olga Tokarczuk’s various literary awards often includes information about her English translator, Jennifer Croft. And rightly so —...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Literature in translation, Memoir

Author detained by Australia for six years will attend literary festival

Posted on 11/14/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

An author whom Australia has detained for six years has finally left the detention center. New Zealand granted Behrouz Boochani...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Memoir, The Guardian

Edward Snowden: Chinese regime has censored my memoir

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 03:59 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who helped reveal the NSA’s surveillance programs, says his memoir is being censored in...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics, The Bookseller

Turkish author recently released from jail is arrested again

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 07:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The celebration over a Turkish writer’s release from jail appears to have been premature. Journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan was...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Memoir, Politics, Scandal, The Guardian

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley's memoir hits shelves

Posted on 11/12/2019 at 08:50 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today is release day for yet another political memoir, this one from Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Book reviews, Memoir, NPR, Politics

Why you need to leave some things out of your memoir

Posted on 11/08/2019 at 11:54 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Even if you’ve tightly focused your memoir, making sure it’s not an autobiography, you’ll still be faced with the issue...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Jane Friedman, Memoir, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Friend's memoir reveals romance with Whitney Houston

Posted on 11/07/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A memoir coming out next week acknowledges, publicly, the writer’s romantic relationship with a pop superstar. Robyn Crawford confirms in...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Memoir, Pop culture

Turkish author of prison memoir has been released from jail

Posted on 11/07/2019 at 07:56 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Turkish author who wrote a memoir about a life sentence in jail has been released. Ahmet Altan, whose I...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Memoir, Nonfiction, The Guardian

Yesterday’s big releases: Prince’s memoir, Call Me By Your Name sequel

Posted on 10/30/2019 at 01:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two much-anticipated books came out yesterday: The Beautiful Ones, the musician Prince’s memoir, and Find Me, the sequel to Call...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Memoir, Movie adaptation, New release, Pop culture, The Guardian