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Jenifer Lewis: The ‘Mother of Black Hollywood’ Gets Down and Dirty in New Memoir

If Jenifer Lewis can't make you laugh, then you just don't have a sense of humor. Lewis' career spans nearly four decades and she has played mother to almost every major African-American character in television and film, earning her the moniker, "The Mother of Black Hollywood." In an NPR interview,…

Aisha K. StaggersNovember 13, 2017

Nonfiction

ICYMI: ‘A Place of Hope’: Eric L. Motley on His Life in the Historic Madison Park Community

The Madison Park community in Montgomery, Alabama, has one of the most interesting and important histories in the country. Founded in 1880 by fourteen former slaves, they established a school, a church, and ultimately, a philosophy of community that has lasted for generations. One such person to be raised there…

BookTribNovember 13, 2017

Nonfiction

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s New Memoir is Comfort Food for the Literary Soul

Not many people have lead a life like that of Nobu Matsuhisa. Born in Saitama, Japan, he and his brother were raised solely by their mother, their father dying in a traffic accident when Matsuhisa was just seven years old. After graduating high school, he worked at a restaurant for seven…

BookTribNovember 9, 2017

Nonfiction

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

I highly recommend reading Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us, but just make sure you have a box of tissues. Maynard finds the love of her life in her 50s, many years after being divorced and raising her children as a single mother. She and Jim, her new love, had a…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 8, 2017

Miscellany

Joni Mitchell, Tom Hanks, and Gabrielle Union: This Week’s New Releases

"By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong..." Joni Mitchell inspired more than just other female recording artists - she is still to this day one of the best and most influential songwriters in the world. She contracted polio at the age of nine, which…

BookTribOctober 17, 2017

Nonfiction

Author Steven Gaines Tickles the Funny Bone and Tells His Truth

Steven Gaines is the bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of The Beatles, and many others. As a journalist Gaines has written for many publications, most notably Vanity Fair, New York Times and New York Magazine…

Aisha K. StaggersSeptember 22, 2017

Nonfiction

YouTube Star Hannah Hart’s ‘Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded’

With a Youtube show titled My Drunk Kitchen, where social media star Hannah Hart gets drunk and dubiously tries to cook (or bake) things, you would expect her memoir to be lighthearted, comedic, even self-deprecating view of her life - on the contrary, however; Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded is…

BookTribSeptember 19, 2017

Miscellany

Gentleman Prefer Books: Flirty Marilyn Monroe Reads

BookTrib is partnering with Early Bird Books to bring you more great content, including this article on the 55th anniversary of Marilyn's death. We're turning to the books that reveal the woman behind the glamour who led a troubled, but extraordinary life. In June of 1926, a girl named Norma Jeane was born to an unknown…

Early Bird BooksAugust 11, 2017

Nonfiction

In Search of the Next ‘Glass Castle’: 4 Potential Bestsellers!

It’s rare for a book to hit the New York Times bestseller’s list at all, let alone spend seven years on it. But that’s exactly what happened with Jeannette Walls’ acclaimed memoir, The Glass Castle. Published in 2005, the book was an immediate hit, going on to sell almost 3…

Rachel CarterAugust 11, 2017

Miscellany

My New York Literary Agent Literally Arrived on My Doorstep

As I was furiously writing my memoir, at times it would cross my mind what I was going to do with it when I was finished. What were the next steps in birthing a book? At my first writer’s retreat, I was told not to worry about those details but…

Lori MorrisonJune 29, 2017

Nonfiction

Kick Your Life Up a Notch with YouTube Superstar Bethany Mota’s New Guide

It’s time to get Motavated! Bethany Mota, the inspirational Youtube star and internet sensation has a new book out and we're so ready to crack it open! Filled with helpful tips, DIYs and her own inspiring life story, Make Your Mind Up: My Guide to Finding Your Own Style, Life, and…

Rachel CarterJune 13, 2017

Young Adult

Lighten Your Life This Spring with These 6 Must-Reads

The spring weather is here! This winter seemed like it would never end, but now the birds are chirping, the trees are budding, and purple and blue flowers are just starting to poke their way out of the ground. It’s the time of year where all you want to do…

Rachel CarterMay 3, 2017

Nonfiction

Letting Dreams Soar: How Travel Changed My Life

Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve always dreamed of flying away to faraway places. I certainly have the travel gene. Every time I would see an airplane, my attention would dissipate for a moment while my 6-year-old self would ponder where the plane was going. It wasn’t long…

BookTrib Guest AuthorDecember 6, 2016

Nonfiction

Book Excerpt! Jessica Teich’s ‘The Future Tense of Joy’

For a sneak peek of Jessica Teich's memoir, The Future Tense of Joy, check out the excerpt below. INTRODUCTION Survivors remember the past in pieces. Not necessarily “before” and “after,” which would be easier. It’s more like time melts into Dali-like puddles, or convulses, slamming together faces and events. Psychologists often…

Beth WaskoNovember 9, 2016

Nonfiction

Video: Interview with Marguerite Elisofon and My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism

On December 26th, 1990 Marguerite Elisofon gave birth to premature twins: Samantha and Matthew. Marguerite and her husband soon noticed their daughter lagged behind her brother in ways that scared them. Samantha, they learned, was on the autistic spectrum. Most “experts” weren’t optimistic about her chances for leading a normal…

BookTribSeptember 22, 2016

Nonfiction

MTV Suspect’s iO Tillett Wright Answers One Question about ‘Darling Days’

The crap we go through while establishing our identity (shakes head back and forth). We often face ridicule for being different or criticized for being too much like Joe Shmoe walking down Park Avenue. You can't win. Oftentimes people assimilate to the status quo or to what society labels as “normal.”…

Matt GillickSeptember 21, 2016

Jenifer Lewis: The ‘Mother of Black Hollywood’ Gets Down and Dirty in New Memoir

ICYMI: ‘A Place of Hope’: Eric L. Motley on His Life in the Historic Madison Park Community

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s New Memoir is Comfort Food for the Literary Soul

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

Joni Mitchell, Tom Hanks, and Gabrielle Union: This Week’s New Releases

Author Steven Gaines Tickles the Funny Bone and Tells His Truth

Gentleman Prefer Books: Flirty Marilyn Monroe Reads

In Search of the Next ‘Glass Castle’: 4 Potential Bestsellers!

My New York Literary Agent Literally Arrived on My Doorstep

Kick Your Life Up a Notch with YouTube Superstar Bethany Mota’s New Guide

Lighten Your Life This Spring with These 6 Must-Reads

Letting Dreams Soar: How Travel Changed My Life

Book Excerpt! Jessica Teich’s ‘The Future Tense of Joy’

Video: Interview with Marguerite Elisofon and My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism

MTV Suspect’s iO Tillett Wright Answers One Question about ‘Darling Days’

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