"Spirited...Yagoda's incisive exploration is a worthy study of a genre that even now cannot completely be defined." more...
"Spirited...Yagoda's incisive exploration is a worthy study of a genre that even now cannot completely be defined." more...
The “Best of 2009” lists are starting to pop up and five Riverhead books made Amazon’s list: Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked, Maile Meloy’s Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, David Owen’s Green Metropolis, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Informers (which landed in the top ten!) Plus, Aleksandar Hemon's Love and Obstacles made the top ten for short stories. Check out the full list here.
The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy talks to Ben Yagoda about his new book, Memoir: A History. When asked what’s driving the seemingly endless appetite for autobiographical books Yagoda answered, “There’s the longer trend of people being ok with revealing their inner life and secrets…[and] the intersection of voyeurism and exhibitionism…One final factor that people realized on the marketing end of things that a memoir is much more promotable. Traditionally somebody would write a first novel that was autobiographical.” Read the full interview here.