Los Angeles Times on Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History

"Spirited...Yagoda's incisive exploration is a worthy study of a genre that even now cannot completely be defined." more...

Riverhead Books on Amazon's Best of 2009 List

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.

Chicago Tribune on Joel Richard Paul’s Unlikely Allies

“Like it or not, the American Revolution is the gift that keeps on giving. Just when you thought no author could possibly say more on the subject, along comes a book that proves you wrong…[Joel Richard Paul] achieves something new in Unlikely Allies…Paul’s blessedly short chapters and razor-sharp prose make the book an ideal read for a distracted century. That is no small achievement, especially for an author who must balance, as Paul does so brilliantly, character development and historical analysis…He reminds us, too, that wars are fought beyond the battlefield: by men and women whose lives depend on choosing words carefully and deceiving with a smile.” more...

The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy Talks to Ben Yagoda About Memoirs

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.

David Owen on Great American Cities

Featured Author : Nick Hornby

 

Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. The recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award for 1999 as well as the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award, he lives in North London.

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