Author Q&A: Diana Marcum

Posted on 07/17/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Diana Marcum’s introduction pretty much writes itself. Despite long odds, she fulfilled her youthful dream of beco...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Awards, Memoir, Nonfiction

Minister's memoir expresses regret over anti-abortion fight

Posted on 07/12/2018 at 04:15 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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As a regular private citizen, it takes strength and courage to change your views on a polarizing issue. Now imagine you&...

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Tagged As: Memoir, Nonfiction, NPR

Author Elizabeth Katkin discusses her fertility journey

Posted on 06/22/2018 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Memoir about fertility and infertility

Elizabeth Katkin’s decision to conceive and give birth to a child wound up taking nine years and $200,000. Her str...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, NPR

Interview with memoir writer Tara Westover

Posted on 06/21/2018 at 06:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer of "Educated"

It's hard to imagine a young Tara Westover ever expecting Amazon to select something she'd written as the best b...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Author interview, Memoir

A writer and his son, the nonreader

Posted on 06/19/2018 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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For much of his son Zach's life, writer Lawrence Tabak tried to pass his love of reading on to him. Not through hars...

Tagged As: Memoir, Young adult literature

Former Obama advisor chats about new memoir

Posted on 06/18/2018 at 09:13 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Memoir of "Pod Save America" co-host and advisor to former President Barack Obama

Dan Pfeiffer, one of President Barack Obama’s longest-serving advisors, has written a memoir about his time in the...

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Tagged As: Memoir, New release, NPR, Podcast

David Lynch co-writes memoir/biography

Posted on 06/15/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Filmmaker, screenwriter, and director David Lynch

Fans of the TV show Twin Peaks can soon peek into the mind that created it. Director and screenwriter David Lynch and co...

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Tagged As: Memoir, New release

Oprah picks former death row inmate's memoir as book club choice

Posted on 06/06/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Alabama man was wrongly convicted of murder and freed after 30 years on death row. He's now the author of a memoir.

Few of us will ever experience the intense lows and highs that Anthony Ray Hinton has lived through. Hinton, then 29, wa...

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Roxane Gay, Edmund White receive Lambda Literary Awards

Posted on 06/05/2018 at 10:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Lambda Literary is an organization that advances lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer literature

Roxane Gay and Edmund White were among the winners at last night’s Lambda Literary Awards. The “Lammys&rdquo...

Tagged As: Awards, Diversity, Memoir, Women in literature

Documentary: Ursula K. Le Guin struggled with female wizard

Posted on 05/30/2018 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin

Author Ursula K. LeGuin struggled to write a female wizard, according to an upcoming documentary. In Worlds of Ursula K...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Fantasy, Memoir, Movie adaptation, The Guardian