If you ever wondered why Emma Donoghue’s name is seemingly everywhere – on novels, children’s books, movie screenplays and even theatre marquees – it’s because the Irish-Canadian writer has a pragmatic view of her profession. “I really like to have a lot of projects to work on because they’re always falling through,” Donoghue, 55, tells Zoomer. “Not […]
Perhaps you just had to be there. There was a time in the 1970s when Christie Brinkley’s face – and fame – was so pervasive that she can remember being on the cover of 11 magazines at the same time, including Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and Harper’s Bazaar. “When I could go to the kiosk, or the […]
We yearn for our mother’s love, and if we never have it, we crumble. But the indomitable Neko Case not only survived an unspeakable childhood, but the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter transcended it through the force of music. In the exquisitely written memoir The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, Case, raised in the Pacific […]
It may not be obvious at first glance, but a genuinely radical idea lurks at the heart of Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing, the spare and supremely lovely latest memoir from American author Abigail Thomas. Tucked amid vivid musings about everyday things like dogs, stink bugs, and orchids, Thomas powerfully and persuasively […]
When Stuart Heritage began his memoir about hair loss, the British author, columnist and television writer had agonizing anxiety about his own. “Does the state of my head signal to the world my capacity to live with failure?” he writes in Bald. “You bet it does.” Years of his life were spent trying trims and treatments […]
First Nations interdisciplinary artist Kent Monkman, whose inimitable canvases and installations interrogate themes of colonialism, sexuality and resilience, is one of five authors named to the shortlist for the $25,000 Governor General’s Award for fiction, along with his co-author and long-time collaborator, artist Gisèle Gordon. Their book, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A […]
For someone renowned for showboating clothes on television, Jeanne Beker is surprisingly comfortable getting naked on the page. Heart on My Sleeve: Stories From a Life Well Worn is the candid, chatty third memoir from the celebrated Toronto-based broadcaster, 72, famed for the long-running, globally syndicated show FashionTelevision and, before that, years of music journalism. […]
Jack Whalen’s two children, Nicholas and Brittany, were teenagers before they learned the reason behind their father’s erratic bouts of drinking, inability to help them with homework, strict curfews and uncontrollable fears that he might lose them. They knew he’d spent time in prison as an adolescent but nothing more, until the evening their mother, […]
Fred C. Trump III has a warning about the months ahead, as his uncle Donald takes on Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential race. He uses strong language, perhaps because he’s from Queens, a notoriously tough New York borough where his family made its fortune in real estate. Or because he’s just really worried about […]
In 1973, unbeknownst to her parents, 13-year-old Tanya Smith flew from her home in Minneapolis, Minn., to Encino, Calif., where she made her way to the doorstep of her crush, Michael Jackson. The fantasy ended when Jackson’s mother, Katherine, came on the intercom and informed her that Michael and his brothers were away on tour. […]