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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

‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Author Paul Lisicky Answers One Question About “The Narrow Door”

You are your own worst critic, but friends can be a close second. They know you better than most, aside from parents but even that can be up for debate. Going through a particularly rough time as a post-grad living in a new city where I know practically no one,…

Matt GillickAugust 12, 2016

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Comedian Amber Tozer Answers One Question about Her Memoir ‘Sober Stick Figure’

Truman Capote once said about drinking, “I drink because it’s the only time I can stand it!” Along with being a quick-witted sassafras and a fabulously talented writer, Capote was a notorious alcoholic. Drinking stifled his creativity and eventually contributed to his death at the age of 59. In the…

Matt GillickSeptember 12, 2016

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PODCAST: Authors Marguerite Elisofon and Ann Martin Talk ‘Rain Reign’ and Autism Awareness

Author of the memoir My Picture Perfect Family (Central Park Publishers, 2016) Marguerite Elisofon chronicles the true story of raising twins in New York City and the journey that takes place following their daughter's diagnoses on the Autism Spectrum. She sat down in with novelist Ann Martin to talk about her book…

Matt GillickMay 26, 2016

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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

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Memoir: How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida and into a World Record at 64

Diana Nyadcr: Steven Lippman As you’ve probably heard, the United States and Cuba have been working on normalizing relations after generations of a diplomatic stand-off that has been at best, frosty, and at worst, nearly deadly. But in 2013—two years before the announcement that the U.S. would again open an…

Michael RuscoeOctober 23, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: Elvis Costello’s Life as a Wordsmith Continues in Memoir

Elvis Costello Photo by Ian Dickson/Rex Features There may be more famous rock performers, there may be bands that pack larger venues and whose albums outsell his, but for my money, the absolute pinnacle of cool in the world of modern music is Elvis Costello. Darkly humorous and slightly dangerous,…

Michael RuscoeOctober 13, 2015

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Review: Ruth Reichl Shares the Recipes that Saved Her Life in My Kitchen Year

What is it about Ruth Reichl that makes her feel like an old friend? If anyone else had lost what might have been the most amazing job in the world—editor-in-chief of Conde Nast’s Gourmet magazine—we might have greeted the announcement with a little schadenfreude. Really, who among us has a…

JeriAnn GellerSeptember 28, 2015

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Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Frank Schaeffer, Author of Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in GOD

Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God - an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve. Schaeffer…

BookTribJanuary 18, 2015

Nonfiction

Coming of age with Catcher in the Rye author, J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye—the quintessential coming of age novel—made J.D. Salinger one of the most famous American authors of all time. Though it was first published almost 65 years ago, it is still an iconic book in the American canon, and its once reclusive author, who died in 2010, still…

Melissa DuclosJune 15, 2014

Nonfiction

Taking care of our parents, and ourselves

“In any given year, almost 30% of the U.S. population will be caring for an ill, disabled, or aging friend or family member.” So we are informed by Ariel Gore in her new memoir The End of Eve (Hawthorne Books, March). She goes on to explain: “The typical caregiver, it…

Melissa DuclosMarch 4, 2014

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

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

Author Steven Gaines Tickles the Funny Bone and Tells His Truth

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

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

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

Author Paul Lisicky Answers One Question About “The Narrow Door”

Comedian Amber Tozer Answers One Question about Her Memoir ‘Sober Stick Figure’

PODCAST: Authors Marguerite Elisofon and Ann Martin Talk ‘Rain Reign’ and Autism Awareness

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

Memoir: How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida and into a World Record at 64

Review: Elvis Costello’s Life as a Wordsmith Continues in Memoir

Review: Ruth Reichl Shares the Recipes that Saved Her Life in My Kitchen Year

Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Frank Schaeffer, Author of Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in GOD

Coming of age with Catcher in the Rye author, J.D. Salinger

Taking care of our parents, and ourselves

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