Arts Apr 26 Watch 3:34 A Columbia University professor’s Brief But Spectacular take on Black life and literature Columbia University professor Farah Jasmine Griffin was deeply troubled by the political turmoil happening across the U.S. during the 2016 presidential campaign. She began writing a literary memoir, "Read Until You Understand," which explores what democracy means for the lives…
Arts Feb 17 Elliot Page’s memoir ‘Pageboy’ will be published in 2023 Elliot Page is working on a memoir, in which he will write about everything from his Oscar-nominated film career to becoming a prominent transgender person. By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Politics Sep 17 First volume of Barack Obama’s memoir coming Nov. 17 The first volume of former President Barack Obama's memoir, “A Promised Land,” is coming out Nov. 17 and will cover his swift and historic rise to the White House and his first term in office. By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Arts Feb 28 ‘Inheritance’ is our March book club pick After submitting her DNA for analysis to an ancestry website in 2016, Dani Shapiro received a piece of news that rocked her to the core: The man who had raised her, her now-deceased father, was not her biological kin. By Courtney Vinopal
Feb 21 Marie Yovanovitch, former diplomat pushed out by Trump, will write a memoir By Hillel Italie, Associated Press According to the publisher, the book will trace her long career, from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Kyiv and “finally back to Washington, D.C. — where, to her dismay, she found a political system beset by many of the same challenges she… Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 6:43 ‘Heart Berries’ author Terese Marie Mailhot answers your questions By Jeffrey Brown, Courtney Vinopal Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Heart Berries,” and Jeff announces the February book selection. Continue watching
Jan 29 These photos helped the author of ‘Heart Berries’ mine her memory By Courtney Vinopal “Photographs informed parts of the book my memory could not retrieve,” said Terese Marie Mailhot. Continue reading
Jan 13 How Terese Marie Mailhot stopped writing what other people wanted By Courtney Vinopal "I found myself writing the book professors wanted me to write," said author Mailhot, before she decided to strip her "fiction for the truth." Leaving expectations behind, she wrote a memoir, "Heart Berries," because, she said, you have to deal… Continue reading
Dec 26 Watch 7:28 Author Sarah Broom on ‘The Yellow House’ and putting New Orleans East on the map By Jeffrey Brown Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author herself, why Broom… Continue watching