Fans of The Art of Racing in the Rain, get ready for a memoir that Garth Stein calls “stunning . . . an incredible journey, both inward and outward.” Read It Forward favorite Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted and Cowboys Are My Weakness, says Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild “is a big, brave, break-your-heart-and-put-it-back-together-again kind of book. Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. She walked the Pacific Crest Trail to find forgiveness, came back with generosity – and now she shares her reward with us. I snorted with laughter, I wept uncontrollably; I don’t even want to know the person who isn’t going to love Wild. This is a beautifully made, utterly realized book.”
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Lucia Greenhouse’s Journey Out of Christian Science
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011“In the back of my mind,” writes Lucia Greenhouse, author of fathermothergod, “was a little boy I didn’t know named Ian Lundman. In 1989, three years after my mother died, Ian Lundman died of untreated juvenile diabetes. His mother had been a Christian Scientist. When Ian became ill, his mother called a Christian Science practitioner (it could have been my father, but wasn’t) instead of a doctor. A Christian Science nurse sat beside this little boy as he lay dying of something that insulin would have successfully treated.” RIFers! In a book group? Check out the end of this post for a special offer for your group.
Sandra Beasley on Embracing Life with Allergies
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011“In my new memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life,” says Sandra Beasley, “I delve into the nitty-gritty of how food allergies affect us, all the way from childhood into our teenage and adult years. I don’t just mean how allergies impact our physical selves (though that can be comically mortifying) but how they shape our social selves, our romantic selves, our role in a family, and our sense of mortality. Your worldview changes when something as simple as a bite of cake or a first-date kiss can send you to the hospital.”
Philip Patrick on Editing Sean Manning’s Memoir The Things That Need Doing
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011I approach editing as a kind of carpentry: first a rough cut, then assembly, and then the finishing with finer and finer grades of sandpaper until the work is well-constructed, feels right to the touch. An editor suggests, asks, cajoles, demands, and pushes a writer as much as he can get away with. Editing a memoir, so deeply personal, can be even trickier. (Hey, about that chapter about your grandfather. I think we should cut it…) I warned Sean early on that I expected him to be sick of me by the time we were done. But he displayed great patience with my demands all the way through. In many regards, I think the book was a continuation of the vigil and companionship with his mom.
Press Release: Crown Announces 1.5 Million Copy First Printing for Decision Points by George W. Bush
Thursday, October 7th, 2010THE CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP
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DECISION POINTS BY GEORGE W. BUSH
PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 9 WITH 1.5 MILLION COPY FIRST PRINTING
— Crown Publishers to Simultaneously Release Deluxe E-book Edition with Videos, Speeches, and Additional Photographs
New York, NY (October 7, 2010) — Decision Points by George W. Bush will be published in North America on [...]
Press Release: Decision Points by George W. Bush To Be Published By Crown November 9, 2010
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH’S MEMOIR, DECISION POINTS,
TO BE PUBLISHED BY CROWN ON NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Publisher Unveils Book Jacket
New York, NY (April 26, 2010) — Decision Points, by George W. Bush, will be published on November 9, 2010, by Crown Publishers. This groundbreaking new brand of memoir will be centered on the fourteen most critical and historic decisions in the life and public service of the 43rd President of the United States.
The book will be released simultaneously in the U.S. and Canada in hardcover, e-book, and audio formats. The announcement was made today by Tina Constable, Vice President, Publisher, Crown Publishers, who also unveiled the book jacket.










