Eli Sharabi’s memoir about being held hostage by Hamas for nearly 500 days will be published in the U.S. later this year. Harper Influence will publish an English-language edition of Sharabi’s Hostage in the fall, the press announced in a news release. Harabi was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, after gunmen burst into his…
Areport in a U.K. newspaper has cast doubts on the veracity of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path. Winn’s book, published in the U.S. by Penguin in 2019, tells the story of a 630-mile walk that she and her husband, Moth, took after they lost their home and he was diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration (CBD),…
Read More “UK Newspaper Questions Facts in Raynor Winn Memoir” »
Author Raynor Winn has issued a statement denying that she lied about some of the events chronicled in her bestselling memoir The Salt Path. Winn’s book, published in the U.S. in 2019 by Penguin, tells the story of a 630-mile hike that she and her husband, Moth Winn, took after they lost their home and he was diagnosed…
Ozzy Osbourne will write about his life, career, and health struggles in a new memoir. Grand Central will publish the rock star’s Last Rites in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne’s descent into hell.” Osbourne first gained fame as the co-founder and lead singer…
Raynor Winn’s U.K. publisher has delayed the release of her next book and signaled its support of the embattled author, the Guardian reports. Penguin Michael Joseph had planned to release Winn’s fourth book, On Winter Hill, in the U.K. in October, but announced that it will set a new publication date at some point in the future. The…
Read More “Publication of Raynor Winn’s Next Book Delayed” »
Ayoung girl documents her escape from a flooded and now uninhabitable New York City. After the progressive decline of the World As It Was—“Storms always came. They took things”—13-year-old Nonie is adjusting to life in what remains of New York, most of the city and its people now gone. Nonie is part of a group…
Molly Jong-Fast stopped by Good Morning America to discuss her new memoir. The journalist and podcaster’s How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir was published Tuesday by Viking. The book tells the story of Jong-Fast’s relationship with her mother, Fear of Flying author Erica Jong, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2023, the same year Jong-Fast’s husband learned he had a…
Issa Rae’s second book of essays is coming later this year, People magazine reports. Amazon will publish the actor and producer’s I Should Be Smarter Now in the summer. The book will contain six essays about Rae’s experiences in Hollywood. Rae rose to fame with her YouTube series, The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, which premiered in 2011 and ran for…
Adrianna Cuevas has been entertaining young readers for years with her delightfully spooky horror novels; past outings feature ghosts, zombies, and a witch. Now, in her latest book, What Fell From the Sky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 11), aliens take center stage in a gripping and timely story that calls back to classic science fiction. “Alien is one of my…
Read More “Showing Our World Through a Space Alien’s Eyes” »
Eliza Jane Brazier’s Girls and Their Horses is headed to the small screen, with Nicole Kidman on board to star, Variety reports. Brazier’s novel, published in 2023 by Berkley, follows a wealthy Southern California family that becomes involved in the cutthroat world of equestrian showjumping. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “Brazier makes us feel for her…
Read More “Nicole Kidman To Star in ‘Girls and Their Horses’” »
