Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Francine Prose to Condoleezza Rice: Let Banned British Memoirist In
Two weeks after customs officials detained British memoirist Sebastian Horsley and prevented him from entering the United States, the PEN American Center has issued a letter of appeal to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to review the case and allow the author to return to the country. Horsley, who flew back to the U.K. after the incident at Newark Liberty International Airport on March 18, has been invited to paricipate in PEN's World Voices Festival of International Literature at the end of this month.
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Page One features a sample of titles we think you'll want to explore. With this installment, we offer excerpts from Beautiful Children by Charles Bock, Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee, and Infamous Landscapes by Prageeta Sharma.
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Facts in 2007 Best-selling Memoir Challenged by Australian Newspaper
A newspaper in Australia recently published a report challenging the accuracy of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
(Sara Crichton Books, 2007), a debut book by Ishmael Beah that was
marketed in Starbucks and chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of
the year by Time magazine.
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Günter Grass Files Lawsuit Against Publisher of Biography
Günter Grass recently filed a lawsuit against Random House, whose German imprint Goldmann Verlag released in October an updated version of Michael Juerg’s 2002 biography of the Nobel Prize winner, Guenter Grass.
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