Sentences with phrase «working on a memoir»

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936 — 1938 by Mary McCarthy Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 114 pages, $ 15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical....

She's currently working on a memoir that chronicles her unconventional upbringing, her mother's descent into mental illness, and her attempts to make sense of it all when she discovers Jesus in her 20s.

And Tyson apparently hasn't gotten introspection out of his system: He says he's working on a memoir with veteran ghostwriter Larry Sloman.

Her background is in secondary education and consulting, and she's currently working on her memoir Twin to Twin which details her high - risk twin pregnancy.

She is currently (and seemingly forever) working on a memoir about her chef apprenticeships abroad.

I have also started working on my memoir.

She is currently at work on a memoir collection about the wonders of growing up in Manhattan.

Are you working on a memoir or fiction?

She is currently working on a memoir about getting married for the first time at age 62.

I began working on my memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story, eleven years ago... Every six months or so, I would open the book file on my computer and spend a couple of weeks tinkering with a chapter.

The intimately conversational quality of this work is the kind of tone a writer working on a memoir should read again and again, I think.

She is at work on another memoir.

She's currently working on a memoir about travel and taking a journey, and a series of novels about a dog who... well, let's all she'll tell us.

Now that I am self publishing, I am no different than the crazy cat lady down the block who has been working on her memoir for 17 years or the guy at the street fair hawking Xeroxed pamphlets of his poetry about fruit.

She is also finishing a book on Provence (PROVINCE OF THE HEART) and working on a memoir of her father, THE ARGONAUTS.

She is currently working on a memoir about being raised by a conservative Indian family, swindling European cab drivers and scaling glaciers.

Working on a memoir and processing events of her childhood in Bushwick, she is certain that it wasn't just an accident that brought her together with Meryl Meisler.

He is also working on a memoir that will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2019.

When he's not working in the arts, he's working on a memoir.

Haben is working on a memoir that will be published by Grand Central Publishing in 2019.

Keri lives with her family in Charlotte, N.C. and is working on a memoir about raising her adopted son.

Not exact matches

Research on sun storms might seem a long way from New York's 1970's punk scene, but Janvier insists that Just Kids, the memoir of rocker Patti Smith in which she recounts her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, deeply influenced her work.

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

In an interview with «60 Minutes» on November 12 — and in her new memoir, «Fierce» — Raisman said that she was abused by Larry Nassar, a doctor who spent more than two decades working with the US Gymnastics team.

The 2016 memoir was inspired by the diary entries that Fisher wrote while working on the first «Star Wars» film in 1977.

Robinson's memoir, A Game of Character, documents the lessons he learned from his working - class parents growing up on Chicago's South Side, and how he's applied them in life and in basketball.

Grace is working on her first book, Detroit's Daughter, a memoir about surviving her father, her brother, abuse, racism, Christians, boys, and poverty, while growing up in Detroit.

She is working on a coming - of - age memoir by the same title, and is represented by the Carol Mann Agency.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

She is writing a memoir and coming full circle to her roots in fine art and working on a series of Food / Art Installations called «Paradigm» - looking at food outside of a restaurant context in collaboration with her brother Ryan Falkner who is also an artist and filmmaker.

He is at work on a harrowing yet comic memoir about having been recently kidnapped in China and on an obsessive modern love novel.

In October of 2008, Scott was on tour in Seattle and I was sitting at my dining room table working on my first memoir, when the number of our adoption agency flashed on my phone.

By Jillian Lauren In October of 2008, Scott was on tour in Seattle and I was sitting at my dining room table working on my first memoir, when the number of our adoption agency flashed on my phone.

In A Woman's Work, Britain's longest - serving female MP Harriet Harman offers a new memoir reflecting on her experience of high - level politics and the recent history of the Labour Party from the late 1970s to the present.

Ms. Calcaterra, 46, now working for Governor Andrew Cuomo as executive director of a state commission investigating public corruption, said she worked on the book for several years and even took memoir - writing classes in New York City.

Kelly will also get the chance to fire back at his criminal - coddling critics in the memoir he's working on for Hachette.

The stuff that works on acne can be hard on skin, too, unless you're trying something like Memoir Acne Cleanser Soap.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

She is a weekly contributor for Ravishly and is working on her first book, a memoir.

Written by the blogger behind Feed Me Phoebe, this memoir follows Lapine through a year of experimenting with lifestyle changes, devoting a month each to topics like green beauty, gut health, fitness, stress, and hormonal regulation, all along reporting on what works for her and what doesn't.

Whether you are curious about writing, love to journal, have been working on a secret memoir, or have a specific fiction, poetry, or other projects in mind, this retreat will give you ample space to commit time, energy and focus to your writing practice.

The directors of Lenny Cooke take on a feature drama, but their New York addiction story sticks close to real life, using largely non-professional actors and working from a memoir by their lead actor.

Deadline is reporting that director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will work together on adapting the memoir «The Wolf of Wall Street».

Based on Oliver Sacks» 1973 memoir around his work with encephalitis patients and the successful usage of L - Dopa medication.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

My Week With Marilyn Based on the memoir of a young man who worked as an assistant to Laurence Olivier during the making of «The Prince and the Showgirl,» this film delivers in all the ways one might expect - as an insider story and as an evocation of the period.

«A Personal Memoir by Augusten Burroughs» discusses how the author wrote the book, why he selected Ryan Murphy to adapt, and how he worked with the cast; «Inside Outsiders» features cast interviews on how the created their respective characters; and «Creating the Cuckoo's Nest» examines the production of the crazy Finch home.

Based on the memoir by journalist Michael Finkel, the absolutely bizarre story will find Hill playing the author of the book, who formerly worked for the New York Times, and found his life take a stranger turn when Christian Longo (Franco)-- a wanted man on the FBI Top Ten list for mudering his family — was arrested in Mexico.

It was therefore, not surprising to discover that Being Flynn is also based on a book, a memoir titled «Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,» and one that Weitz has been working on adapting for a number of years.

Working from a script by John Ridley (Red Tails, U Turn), who adapts Northup's own incredible memoir published in 1853, McQueen creates a powerful effect by not making the film «epic» or by proclaiming itself an «pretentiously important issues movie», but by keeping the emphasis on the characters and their individual stories much more so than as a film meant to cover the topic of slavery as a whole.