Topic
Memoir
75 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
Seeing Ghosts is a memoir by by Kat Chow. Here's the pitch:Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From The Bookshelves: A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing by Mary-Alice Daniel
The subtitle of A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing by Mary-Alice Daniel is A Memoir Across Three Continents. Those continents are Africa (Nigeria), Europe (England), and North America (U.S.A.).Here's the…
The Right Coast
Lessons I Learned From Thomas Sowell s Memoir
Thomas Sowell, now 93 years old, is one of the most esteemed and prolific authors and social commentators today. Trained as an economist at Harvard and the University of Chicago,…
Family Law Prof Blog
A Poet’s Divorce
By Family Law
From New York Times:The American poet and writer Maggie Smith exudes a beatific warmth, so it seemed apt — a felicitous pairing of author and venue — that her recent…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From The Bookshelves: Brown Boy by Omer Aziz
Brown Boy is a memoir by lawyer/writer/current Radcliffe Fellow Omer Aziz. Here's the publisher's pitch:In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From The Bookshelves: Tastes Like War
Tastes Like War is a 2021 memoir from Grace M. Cho. Read this pitch:Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir by Jean Guerrero
Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir by Jean GuerreroHere is the publisher's blurb on the book, which came out in paperback this month:"From renowned journalist Jean Guerrero, here is the haunting story of…
Southern California Appellate News
Book deal for Justice Jackson
Bloomberg law reports: Justice Jackson Poised to Publish Memoir Titled ‘Lovely One’: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the latest justice to land a book deal soon after joining the Supreme…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
British director Joanna Hogg on death, mothers, and the allure of memoir movies
British director, Joanna Hogg, who debuted with her 2007 film, Unrelated, has gone on to make several other dramas including Archipelago, Exhibition, The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II. Her…
Cordell Parvin Blog
A Gift from Our Daughter and a Story I Told Her
We leave our home at Diamanté for the last time today. We likely will go on record as being owners of a home there for the shortest time in Diamanté…